A Calligraphic Album Folio

Album folio on paper, with 311. of black nasta'liq within gold and polychrome rules, above and below it a poem in diagonal nasta'liq panels, laid down within gold and polychrome rules, the illuminated blue margins with gold floral and bird motifs reserved against gold sprinkled ground, the upper, middle and lower outer corners with polychrome animal and figural cusped medallions, reverse plain

Estimate:£6,000

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