Persian manuscript on paper, the central panel consisting of three couplets of poetry in nasta'liq script in black ink on a brown ground with a stylised willow tree in gold, each couplet bordered by a panel of stylised floral motifs in colours and gold, an inner border consisting of further panels of nasta'liq verses in black ink on a white ground, all laid down on an album page with gold-sprinkled borders
album page 447 x 300 mm.

Footnotes

The central panel comprises two couplets from different parts of the Bustan of Sa'di, and in between them, a couplet of Hafiz, copied by 'Imad al-Hasani, the famous nasta'liq calligrapher of the Safavid period, known as Mir 'Imad al-Hasani al-Husayni, who was murdered in 1616, accused of being a Sunni. His recorded works are dated between AH 972/AD 1564-5) and AH 1024/AD 1615-16. See Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. II, Teheran, 1346 sh., pp. 518-38).

In the borders are couplets from the Jam-e Jam of Awhadi Maragheh'i (d. 1338).

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A Safavid nasta'liq calligraphic album page, signed by 'Imad al-Hasani Persia, dated AH 1014/AD 1605

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