RUSTAM MEETING AFRASIYAB, CALLIGRAPHY BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASAN AL-TUNI, QAZVIN OR MASHHAD, 1580

RUSTAM MEETING AFRASIYAB
CALLIGRAPHY BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASAN AL-TUNI, QAZVIN OR MASHHAD, 1580
From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, recto with an illustrated epic, with 3ll. of nasta'liq in four columns below, verso with 23ll. of similar nasta'liq in four columns divided by double gold intercolumnar rule, and a further outer column with nasta’liq in diagonal, heading in larger gold nasta'liq, catchword, later owner's stamp in margin, folio with some creasing
Folio 13 3/8 x 9in. (34 x 23cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1980, lot 271 (part 1)