COPY OF POEMS (DIWAN) OF TIMURID COURT POET ALI SHER NAVAI
CENTRAL ASIA, DATED AH 970/ AD 1562
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 6 November 2019 at 12:00 GMT
Description
Persian manuscript on paper, 121 leaves, with between ten and twelve lines written in black nasta’liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, catchwords, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, some headings in red, opening folio with illuminated header followed by two further panels illumination on the second page, later owners’ notes and stamps, some waterstaining, in fine Ottoman binding
Dimensions
Sight size: 23.8cm x 16.2cm
Footnote
Note: Mir ‘Alisher Navai (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizam-al-Din ‘Alisher Herawi was a leading Chagatai Turkish poet, writer, politician, linguist, mystic and painter. He was also the confidant and vizier of the Timurid Sultan Husain Bayqara (r. 1469-1506). Navai is considered by many throughout the Turkish-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkish literature.