COPIED BY MIR BIN MUHIBB 'ALI RASHIDI, SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): KULLIYAT
COPIED BY MIR BIN MUHIBB 'ALI RASHIDI, SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY
An almost complete work of Jami, containing twenty of his writings both in verse and prose, Persian manuscript on paper, 508ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. of elegant black nasta'liq sometimes in four columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, headings and important words and phrases picked out in red, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, catchwords, twenty seventeenth century illuminated headings in gold and polychrome, numerous ownership seals of Mihr 'Ali dated AH 1238, first bifolio heavily illuminated in gold and polychrome, previous folio with applied shamsa containing the name of Sultan Mirza Husayn Bayqara against a ground with gold floral design, one colophon signed, trimmed, in later green lacquer with central medallions and floral borders signed by Muhammad 'Ali and dated AH 1176, red doublures with gold floral medallion
Text panel 7¾ x 4¼in. (19.6 x 10.7cm.); folio 13 x 8in. (33 x 20.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript contains the following twenty works in order:
1. Subhat al-Abrar
2. Yusuf wa Zulaykha
3. Layla wa Majnun
4. Khirad namah-i Iskandari
5. Silsilat al-Dhahab
6. Daftar-i Ishq of Silsilat al-Dhahab
7. Daftar-i 'Adl of Silsilat al-Dhahab
8. Salaman Absal
9. Tuhfat al-Ahrar
10. Diwan-i Qasa'id
11. Diwan-i Ghazaliyat
12. Shawahid al-Nubuwwa
13. Sharh Mimiyya-i Khamriyya
14. Sharh Qasida-i Ta'iyya
15. Sharh Ruba'iyyat
16. Sharh-Baitain az Mathnavi-i ma'navi
17. No title
18. Sharh-i hadith-i Abu Zarrin al-'Aqil
19. Sharh-i Kalima-i Taiyiba
20. No title

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