COMMENTARY ON A QASIDA OF IBN FARID (D. 1235 AD)

TIMURID IRAN, DATED 14 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 806/22 JUNE 1404 AD

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COMMENTARY ON A QASIDA OF IBN FARID (D. 1235 AD)
TIMURID IRAN, DATED 14 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 806/22 JUNE 1404 AD
Commentary on a poem, Persian manuscript on paper, 182ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. of black naskh script with important words and phrases picked out in red, text within blocks outlined in black and gold, catchwords, two colophons, one towards the middle of the text, a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece at the beginning of the text, later owners' stamps and notes, minor staining, in later brown morocco with flap
Text panel 5 x 2in. (13.5 x 7cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4 1/8in. (18 x 10.6cm.)

Lot Essay

The author of the Qasida, on which this manuscript is a Persian commentary, is Ibn Farid, an Arab poet of Cairo (d. AH 632/1235 AD). A note on the first colophon of the manuscript says that it is in the hand of the author, Sa'in al-Din 'Ali bin Afdal al-Din Muhammad bin Sadr al-Din Muhammad, known as Tarka. The second colophon gives no name or date, but is finished in the same hand.

The manuscript has a round Aqquyunlu seal impression with the date AH 867 (1462-63 AD).

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