A DIWAN OF SAEB TABRIZI (1592-1670)
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Iran, dated 1107 AH (1695)

Persian manuscript on paper, 121ff. plus four flyleaves, each gold-sprinkled folio with 15ll. of black ink nasta’liq script in charted format, the opening folio with gold and polychrome illumination, catchwords, within blue and gold rules, signed and dated Sharaf ud Din al Katib [1]107, black end papers, in austere black morocco binding, the text panel 12cm x 16cm, the folio 16.8cm x 9.5cm.