ATTRIBUTED TO SHAYKH MUHAMMAD, SAFAVID QAZVIN, IRAN, CIRCA 1587, 1587

• Ink and wash heightened with gold on paper, seal in upper left corner, illuminated panels of nasta'liq set horizontally and vertically comprising of verses by Mir Ali Shir Nava'i and Sa'di, gold and polychrome rules, laid down within borders stencilled in gold and pink, pasted onto card, reverse pasted down with a page of unrelated text not fully visible, mounted
• 20,3 x8,9 cm (8,0 x3,5in)