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This binding is attached to a copy of the 'Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami', copied by Sayyid 'Ali al-Husayni on Wednesday 5 Shawwal 1234 (28th July 1819). The outer covers are painted with very fine designs of rose sprays and carnations on a coffee-brown ground, framed by a black border with gold flowers. The doublures are decorated with accomplished renditions of single iris plants on a red background, and these must be the work of the great master Muhammad Hadi. The Shirazi painter Muhammad Hadi is best known from an account by an English official of the East India Company, Claudius James Rich, who met him in Shiraz on 10 September 1821. Rich wrote to his wife, 'I have just had a visit from Mirza Mohammed Hadi, the most distinguished artist in Persia.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Binding of a Manuscript
Date
1230 AH (1815)
Medium
papier-maché boards, painted & varnished
Accession number
915
Work type
Mixed media & collage
Inscription description
The outer covers are signed, 'painted by the most humble Muhammad Hadi'.
