**TWO LARGE FOLIOS OF NASTALIQ CALLIGRAPHY, HYDERABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, DATED AH 1313/1896 AD gouache with ink and gold on sections of paper, laid on card, by Muhammad Mahmud Nawaz Mu'jiz Raqam, composed by Nawab Mir Qutb al-Dibn Ali Khan Bahadur, each with six lines of Persian poetry amidst scrolling gold saz leaves, surrounded by dense polychrome floral border on blue ground 56 x 35.5 approx. each Provenance: European Private Collection; Christie's South Kensington, April 2015, lot 93 The poem was written following the death of Nawab Azam in the month of Sha'ban. The date is either from the Hijri calendar or the 'Fasli' calendar used by the Nizams of Hyderabad. If the later, the AD date would be 1903, rather than 1896.