Persian manuscript on paper, each leaf with nine lines of nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, finely illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, outer borders with birds amidst foliage in gold on a dark orange ground and a pale cream ground respectively, verso each leaf with a 20th Century painting in Safavid style, perhaps late Qajar, one depicting Layla going to see Majnun, the other depicting a prince enthroned, illuminated borders as recto 325 x 196 mm. and slightly smaller(2)
Persian manuscript on paper, each leaf with nine lines of nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, finely illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, outer borders with birds amidst foliage in gold on a dark orange ground and a pale cream ground respectively, verso each leaf with a 20th Century painting in Safavid style, perhaps late Qajar, one depicting Layla going to see Majnun, the other depicting a prince enthroned, illuminated borders as recto 325 x 196 mm. and slightly smaller(2)
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