- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached album folio; Page of calligraphies; Persian in black nasta'liq script; four calligraphic panels: three couplets by sultan Mahmud al-Katib in the upper right-hand corner; two couplets by Shah-Muhammad in lower right-hand corner; two couplets by Sultan Muhammad Nur in lower left-hand corner; triangular embellishment above the lower left panel signed by Sultan Ali al-Mashhadi; two couplets in the upper left-hand corner; corners embellished with triangular illuminated panels.
Border: The text panels are set in gold, red, and blue rulings mounted on marbled gold-sprinkled paperboard.
- Inscription(s)
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Upper right-hand side panel: al-Abd al-moznab Sultan Mahmud al-Katib dar Ahmad Abad neveshteh shoud in seneh 970.
“Written by the hand of sinful slave Mahmud al-Katib in Ahmad Abad in the year [A.H.] 970- [A.D. 1563]."
Lower right-hand corner: fagir Shah-Muhammad
" Poor Shah- Muhammad"
Lower left-hand corner: Mashgheh al-'abd Sultan Muhammad Noor, ghafr-u- tobeh.
“Written by the slave Sultan Muhammad Noor, may God forgive his sins."Triangular embellishment above the lower left panel signed by Sultan Ali al-Mashhad
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 434, pp. 353-354.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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