Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad Nizami (d. AH c.613/1217 AD): Khamseh Early Safavid Tabriz, circa 1500-1505 Persian manuscript on paper, 275ff. with 23ll. of tiny black nasta'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, text within gold rules, titles in blue on panels embellished with gold and polychrome floral decoration, with SEVEN MINIATURES, detached from manuscript and with some repainting, particularly of faces, plus two finely illuminated gold and blue title folios, f.178 with ownership note of library of Ottoman Sultan Sulayman, slight smudging and staining, folios loose, incomplete, in original brown morocco binding with flap with gold tooled decoration and decoupé doublures, probably regilded, modern box case Folio 11¼ x 6¼in. (28.5 x 16cm.); text 7 x 3in. (17.7 x 8cm.)
Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad Nizami (d. AH c.613/1217 AD): Khamseh Early Safavid Tabriz, circa 1500-1505 Persian manuscript on paper, 275ff. with 23ll. of tiny black nasta'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, text within gold rules, titles in blue on panels embellished with gold and polychrome floral decoration, with SEVEN MINIATURES, detached from manuscript and with some repainting, particularly of faces, plus two finely illuminated gold and blue title folios, f.178 with ownership note of library of Ottoman Sultan Sulayman, slight smudging and staining, folios loose, incomplete, in original brown morocco binding with flap with gold tooled decoration and decoupé doublures, probably regilded, modern box case Folio 11¼ x 6¼in. (28.5 x 16cm.); text 7 x 3in. (17.7 x 8cm.)
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