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SIGNED GHIYATH AL-DIN HASAN BIN MURSHID AL-DIN MUHAMMAD AL-SHIRAZI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 19 JUMADA II AH 990/21 JULY 1582 AD

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SIGNED GHIYATH AL-DIN HASAN BIN MURSHID AL-DIN MUHAMMAD AL-SHIRAZI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 19 JUMADA II AH 990/21 JULY 1582 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 358ff. each with 12ll. of black naskh, within gold and polychrome rules, gold rosette verse markers, gold and blue marginal medallions marking 'ashr, sura headings in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of blue text on gold ground, colophon signed and dated, contemporaneous binding with tooled and gilt panel, doublures with découpé medallion and spandrels on polychrome paper panels
Text panel 9 3/4 x 6 1/4in. (24.8 x 15.7cm.); folio 15 3/4 x 10 1/8in. (39.6 x 25.8cm.)
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A Shirazi scribe by the name of Murshid al-Din Muhammad is recorded as having been active in the early sixteenth century. Manuscripts by him include a Diwan of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi dated AH 911/1505 AD in the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, Halle and a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami formerly in the possession of H. Kevorkian, dated AH 919/1513-14 AD and copied in Shiraz (Grace Dunham Guest, Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century, Washington D.C, 1949, p. 24, n. 1). It is possible that our scribe, Ghiyath al-Din was the son of this scribe.

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