Calligraphic quatrain signed Ahmad al-Husayni, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, second half of sixteenth century]

Calligraphic quatrain signed Ahmad al-Husayni, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, second half of sixteenth century]

single leaf, single column, four lines diagonally written with interlinear colouring of decorated gold designs heightened with polychrome florets, triangular panels at the top with polychrome decoration and bottom with the calligrapher's signature, pasted to album page framed within multiple borders containing 24 cartouches of nastaliq verse, total 293 by 245 mm. (panel 192 by 91 mm.); framed and glazed

Ahmad al-Husayni was a calligrapher in the Safavid court of Shah Tahmasp and was apparently the scribe responsible for all correspondence with the Ottomans during that period. He also worked in the court of Mir' Murad Khan and later Shah Isma'il's court in Qazvin. Al-Husayni was a student of the master scribe Mir' Ali (Mehdi Bayani, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, pp. 138-41).

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