AN ILLUMINATED FOLIO FROM A ROYAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE DIWAN OF ANWARI SIGNED MANSUR NAQQASH, AJMER, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1025/1616 AD Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, recto with gold and polychrome floral illuminated shamsa, gold illuminated birds above and below, inscriptions with date of completion, seal impressions of Jahangir, Shah Jahan and 'Alamgir, verso with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surmounting 12ll. of black nasta'liq aranged in two columns in clouds reserved against gold ground, within gold and polychrome rules, gold and polychrome scrolling floral margins, headpiece signed, minor pigment loss Folio 12 x 7 1/8in. (30.4 x 18.2cm.)
AN ILLUMINATED FOLIO FROM A ROYAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE DIWAN OF ANWARI SIGNED MANSUR NAQQASH, AJMER, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1025/1616 AD Ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, recto with gold and polychrome floral illuminated shamsa, gold illuminated birds above and below, inscriptions with date of completion, seal impressions of Jahangir, Shah Jahan and 'Alamgir, verso with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surmounting 12ll. of black nasta'liq aranged in two columns in clouds reserved against gold ground, within gold and polychrome rules, gold and polychrome scrolling floral margins, headpiece signed, minor pigment loss Folio 12 x 7 1/8in. (30.4 x 18.2cm.)
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