AN OTTOMAN SHAYKH HAMDULLAH CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 920 AH/1514-15 AD

A calligraphic exercise (Qit'a).
Signed Hamdullah also known as Ibn Al-Shaykh (1436-1520 AD), Ottoman Turkey, dated 920 AH/1514-15 AD
Arabic manuscript on silver-speckled paper, with one line of black thuluth above a panel with 3 lines of smaller black naskh, signed and dated in gold naskh written diagonally in two illuminated cartouches, the text in cloud bands on gold illuminated ground, laid down on card, slight rubbing and staining.
Folio: 14 by 23 cm.

PROVENANCE
Christie's, 6 October 2009, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, lot 100