• An illuminated leaf from the Farhang-i Jahangiri (Persian dictionary) of Jalal al-Din Husain Inju, India, Mughal, first quarter 17th century
  • Handicrafts and classics, Calligraphy, manuscript
  • 22 * 34 cm
  • Persian manuscript on paper, 35 lines to the page written in elegant black nasta’liq on gold speckled paper, important words in red, ruled in blue, red and gold, the inner border with gold bands of flowers against a purple or yellow ground, the outer margins with gold male figures of among floral scrolls

    text panel: 21.5 by 11cm; leaf: 34 by 22cm.
Estimation
£10,000
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- £15,000
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Artwork Description

This folio comes from a Persian language dictionary whose patrons were first the Emperor Akbar, who originally commissioned the work, and later the Emperor Jahangir, to whom it was presented in 1623. Mir Jamal al-Din Husayn Inju of Shiraz (d.1626), undertook the epic task to compile a dictionary listing about 10,000 words taken from the works of Persian poets. The Farhang-i Jahangiri is divided into twenty-four chapters arranged alphabetically according to the second letter of each word.
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