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Diwan-i Tusi
Timurid Persia, second half 15th Century
Manuscript on buff and occasionally coloured paper with stencilled designs and occasional illuminations and illustrations, 76ff. and 2 flyleaves, each with 6ll. elegant nasta'liq written diagonally, one side of the text panel with a further band of 2 verses written vertically, headings in gold thuluth outlined in black on similar scrolling ground panels, the upper right and lower left spandrels filled with a coloured stencilled floral or arabesque design, 4ff. with headings in white kufic on gold vine cartouches within fully illuminated panels, 10ff. with margins completely filled with stencilled designs, the spandrels finely painted with various animal groupings, the first and last folios with 17th century illuminated panels pasted over the original text (water staining, principally to margins, slightly scuffed, occasional smudging, folios misbound, possible lacunae), in 15th century style binding with Mamluk style doublures, cloth slip case
text 5 x 1¾in. (12.8 x 4.3cm.); folio 8½ x 3¼in. (21.8 x 8.1cm.)
