Property from an Important Private Collection An illustrated leaf from Nizami’s Layla and Majnun, Persia, Turkman, 904 AH/1498-99 AD, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 7 lines of black nasta’liq within 4 columns, the reverse with 21 lines to the page written in black nasta’liq, within 4 columns, the titles in blue against gold floral scroll, text panel 22 x 11.5cm.; leaf 34.3 x 19.8cm. Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 8 October 2008, lot 38 Note: This leaf comes from a manuscri
Property from an Important Private Collection An illustrated leaf from Nizami’s Layla and Majnun, Persia, Turkman, 904 AH/1498-99 AD, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 7 lines of black nasta’liq within 4 columns, the reverse with 21 lines to the page written in black nasta’liq, within 4 columns, the titles in blue against gold floral scroll, text panel 22 x 11.5cm.; leaf 34.3 x 19.8cm. Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 8 October 2008, lot 38 Note: This leaf comes from a manuscri
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