Folio_of_a_copy_of_the_Chahar_Maqala_by_Nizami_Aruzi._Dated_1383,_likely_from_Jalayirid-era_Tabriz.jpg
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Folio of a copy of the Chahar Maqala ("Four Discourses") by Nizami Aruzi. Signed by a certain Awad ibn Muhammad ibn Ardashir. Dated 1383, likely made in Jalayirid-era Tabriz.
The Four Discourses, Persian manuscript on paper, 49ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of flowing black nasta'liq, important words and phrases picked out in blue, gold and red, text panels outlined in blue, gold and black, catchwords, first folio with illuminated shamsa with the title in white kufic, following folio with elegant similarly illuminated headpiece, the text with three contemporaneous paintings in opaque pigments heightened with gold, three unfinished paintings and nine spaces left blank for further paintings, fly-leaves and first folio with later owners' notes and stamps, in later brown morocco with paper covered doublures
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