NUR AL-DIN ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (AH 817/1414 AD-AH 898/1492 AD): DIWAN EARLY SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RABI I AH 915/JUNE-JULY 1509 AD Persian manuscript on polished cream paper, 351ff. each with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq in two columns, gold and black intercolumnar rules, various headings in blue or gold nasta'liq with gold and black interlinear rules, gold and blue margins between black rules, catchwords, opening four bifolia in prose nasta'liq , various phrases in gold, red or blue, opening folio with title in white knotted kufic on gold cartouche within illuminated panel, similar illuminated heading on f.61v., full-page illuminated frontispiece, colopohon signed by Maqsud b. Bayezid al-Haravi, dated in the month of Rabi al-awwal, in the year five and ten and nine hundred, erased later ownership inscriptions either side, a few ff. at beginning and end remargined, cloth boards with morocco trim and red leather doublures, spine splitting Folio 9 x 5 3/8in. (22.7 x 14.7cm.); text 6 x 3¼in. (15.4 x 8.3cm.)
NUR AL-DIN ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (AH 817/1414 AD-AH 898/1492 AD): DIWAN EARLY SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RABI I AH 915/JUNE-JULY 1509 AD Persian manuscript on polished cream paper, 351ff. each with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq in two columns, gold and black intercolumnar rules, various headings in blue or gold nasta'liq with gold and black interlinear rules, gold and blue margins between black rules, catchwords, opening four bifolia in prose nasta'liq , various phrases in gold, red or blue, opening folio with title in white knotted kufic on gold cartouche within illuminated panel, similar illuminated heading on f.61v., full-page illuminated frontispiece, colopohon signed by Maqsud b. Bayezid al-Haravi, dated in the month of Rabi al-awwal, in the year five and ten and nine hundred, erased later ownership inscriptions either side, a few ff. at beginning and end remargined, cloth boards with morocco trim and red leather doublures, spine splitting Folio 9 x 5 3/8in. (22.7 x 14.7cm.); text 6 x 3¼in. (15.4 x 8.3cm.)
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