File:A Qajar prayer book, signed Aga Jan Partau Isfahani, Iran, dated 11 March 1868.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionA Qajar prayer book, signed Aga Jan Partau Isfahani, Iran, dated 11 March 1868.jpg |
English: A QAJAR PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED AGA JAN PARTAU ISFAHANI, IRAN, DATED AH 17 DHU AL-QA'DA 1284/11 MARCH 1868 AD Arabic manuscript on silver-sprinkled paper, 221 folios as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black naskh with red Persian interlinear, with headings and important words highlighted in gold, text panel laid down within gold and polychrome rules, the opening bifolio with an illuminated headpiece with interlocking palmettes containing scrolling floral vine, a heading with gold naskh set inside bands of strapwork on a ground of scrolling vine, the margins with interlocking palmettes on a ground of scrolling vine issuing rosettes, the colophon signed al-Hajji Agha Jan Partau and dated with a faded ownership stamp in the lower left hand corner, set in gold and polychrome contemporaneous floral lacquer binding Text panel 4½ x 2¼in. (11.3 x 5.6cm.); folio 6 5/8 x 4¼in. (16.8 x 10.8cm.) Mirza Aga Jan Partau (d. AH 1303/1885-86 AD) was a famous calligrapher and poet who wrote under the pen-name Isfahani. He was born in Isfahan and studied calligraphy there with the master Zayn al-'Abidin al-Isfahani. Towards the end of his life he moved to Tehran where he worked at the court of Nasir al-Din Shah, producing Qur'ans and prayer books for the ruler and various Qajar dignitaries. |
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