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AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAWI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): HASHT BIHISHT
COPIED BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASSAN AL-TURANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 988/1580-81 AD
AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAWI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): HASHT BIHISHT COPIED BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASSAN AL-TURANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 988/1580-81 AD Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, with 80ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 20ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on gold-speckled ground divided into four columns with gold rules, headings in red, gold and silver nasta'liq , text panel with gold and blue rules, opening folio with illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece and heading in white nasta'liq on a gold ground, with four contemporaneous illustrations, colophon signed and dated tamam shod khamsa-ye amir khusrau dehlavi 'ala yad al-'abd al-mudhnib al-'asi qutb al-din ibn hasan al-turani ghafara dhunubahuma fi tarikh sana thaman wa thamanin wa tis'a-mi'ah , in later stamped and gilded brown morocco Text panel 10¼ x 5¾in. (26 x 14.5cm.); folio 13¼ x 8 3/8in. (33.8 x 21.2cm.)