Mir 'Ali Shir Nawa'i (d. AH 906/1500 AD): Diwan

CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, MID-16TH CENTURY

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Mir 'Ali Shir Nawa'i (d. AH 906/1500 AD): Diwan
Central Asia or Persia, mid-16th Century
Turki manuscript on buff paper, 206ff. with 12ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns outlined with gold, minor titles in gold and blue, opening folios with double page miniature depicting a prince with attendant seated in a landscape preceded by a gold and blue shamsa containing the titles of the works followed by preamble with opening gold and blue illuminated heading and text within gold clouds highlighted with polychrome flowers, main text with similar heading, with five similarly illuminated headings and two miniatures, numerous library inscriptions, in contemporary brown morocco binding
Folio 10.3/8 x 6.7/8in. (26.4 x 17.2cm.); text 6¼ x 3½in. (15.5 x 9cm.)

Lot Essay

This is a rare work.
Written in the margins around the first few folios of the main text are Persian verses concerning Farhad and Shirin in the hand of Muhammad Salih Muhammad 'Ali Nakhchawahi and dated 25 (?) Rabi II 1005, probably added later.

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