Two Persian Miniatures of the Battle of Karbala, Persia, Qajar, circa 1850

Ink and gouache heightened with gold on paper, 11 lines or fewer to the page in 4 columns of nasta'liq in black ink with double intercolumnar rules, headings in red on gold ground cartouches with blue foliated spandrels, rectos with 23 lines of text, ruled in colours and gold, both miniatures depicting Imam Husayn cleaving Amr Ibn Abdawud in twain using 'Ali's 'Dhu al-Fiqar' sword during the Battle of Karbala

In fairly good overall condition, some losses and nibbles to the leaf edges, some patches of staining, as viewed.
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An illustrated leaf from the same manuscript can be found in the collects ion of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan (see Sheila R. Canby, Princes, Poets & Paladins, London, 1998, p.95, no.68).