AN ILLUSTRATED LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF THE RISALAH HATAMIYYAH OF KAMAL AL-DIN HUSAYN KASHEFI SABZAVARI

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AN ILLUSTRATED LEAF FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF THE RISALAH HATAMIYYAH OF KAMAL AL-DIN HUSAYN KASHEFI SABZAVARI, DEPICTING A STORY CONCERNING THE FAMOUS GENEROSITY OF THE ARAB PRINCE HATAM-E TAI PERSIA, 16TH CENTURY gouache and gold on paper, three lines of text written in nasta'liq script in black ink, with a heading in red ink, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, recto ten lines of text leaf 193 x 135 mm. Footnotes Provenance Dr Thomas Ewart Marston (1905-1984), curator of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature art at Yale University Library. Minna Marston, his wife, and thence by descent.