PROBABLY SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1510-20
Three illustrated folios from the Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi, opaque pigments in heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, set within gold and polychrome rules, the reverse with 14 or 18ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, two folios with headings in blue nasta'liq against a swirling floral ground, two folios with margins cropped
Painting 5 1⁄4 x 4 1⁄4in. (13.4 x 10.9cm.); text panel 7 1⁄4 x 4 1⁄4in. (18.2 x 10.9cm.); folio 12 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄2in. (31 x 19cm.)