JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): KHAMSA SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 966/1558-9 AD Persian manuscript on buff paper, 342ff. as numbered with 21ll. of neat black nasta'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, titles in red, blue and gold, illuminated title pages, with twenty-three contemporaneous miniatures in opaque pigments heightened with gold, final folio with colophon signed Khwaja Mir ibn Shams al-Din Muhammad Munshi Astarabadi and dated 966, opening folios lacking, some flaking of paint and light staining, in black morocco binding with stamped decoration Text panel 6¾ x 3 7/8in. (16.3 x 9.8cm.); folio 9¼ x 6¼in. (23.2 x 15.8cm.)
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): KHAMSA SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 966/1558-9 AD Persian manuscript on buff paper, 342ff. as numbered with 21ll. of neat black nasta'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, titles in red, blue and gold, illuminated title pages, with twenty-three contemporaneous miniatures in opaque pigments heightened with gold, final folio with colophon signed Khwaja Mir ibn Shams al-Din Muhammad Munshi Astarabadi and dated 966, opening folios lacking, some flaking of paint and light staining, in black morocco binding with stamped decoration Text panel 6¾ x 3 7/8in. (16.3 x 9.8cm.); folio 9¼ x 6¼in. (23.2 x 15.8cm.)
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