RAWDAT AL-TAHIRIN, HISTORY BOOK, A Gift for The Talpur Dynas...

Hammer

£22,000

RAWDAT AL-TAHIRIN, HISTORY BOOK, A Gift for The Talpur Dynasty (1783–1843), SINDH, NORTH WEST INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT, INDIA/MUGHAL

Tahir Muhammed bin Imad Al-din Hasan Bin Sultan Ali Bin Haji Muhammad Husayn Shirazi, Persian manuscript on watermarked paper, 35 lines of black and red nastaliq script, text in gold clouds, text outlined with blue green gold rules, highly illuminated nine headings in gold and polychrome, illuminated scrolling floral vine in the margins, our lavishly illuminated manuscript with extreme gold usage proves its importance Comprised of histories, destinies prophets, Ottomans (mentioned as last Sultan Ahmad I.), Mughol and Khalifs and twelve Imams.

Dimensions
36 x 22,5 cm

Artist or Maker
Signed Abd’ul Âkil al-Asi Muhammad Ismail Shirazi

Date
Dated 1244 AH/ 1829AD

Literature
The colophon gives the date of the completion of the whole manuscript as 1244, and the name of the scribe as highly celebrated artist Muhammad Isma'il Shirazi. Other works copied by Muhammad Isma'il Shirazi are in the Gulestan Palace Library (dated Jumada I AH 1239 and 1236) and in the University of Hyderabad in Sindh (M. Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh nevisan, Vol. 3, Tehran, 1346 sh., p.636, no.865) Another manuscript of the same scribe sold at Christie's 5 October 2010 lot268.