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Mirza Muhammad Sadiq Nami is known as a Zand historian and a leading poet at the court of Karim Khan zand
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SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD [..] 'ABD AL-LATIF, MUGHAL INDIA OR IRAN, DATED 15 SAFAR AH 1193/4 MARCH 1779 AD
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MIRZA MUHAMMAD SADIQ NAMI: LAYLA WA MAJNUN
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD [..] 'ABD AL-LATIF, MUGHAL INDIA OR IRAN, DATED 15 SAFAR AH 1193/4 MARCH 1779 AD
Written during the author's lifetime, Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, with 33ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black shikasteh script arranged in four columns between double black-ruled gold divisions, with gold clouds interspersed between the text, titles in red thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, the text within black-ruled gold frame, opening bifolio with finely illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome bordered by illuminated margins, including one illustration of Majnun and his dog, colophon signed and dated, in 18th century Indian, stamped and gilt red morocco binding, some folios loose in binding
Text panel 6¼ x 3¼in. (13.5 x 8.3cm.); folio 7 x 4 3/8in. (17.7 x 11.1cm.)
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD [..] 'ABD AL-LATIF, MUGHAL INDIA OR IRAN, DATED 15 SAFAR AH 1193/4 MARCH 1779 AD
Written during the author's lifetime, Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, with 33ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black shikasteh script arranged in four columns between double black-ruled gold divisions, with gold clouds interspersed between the text, titles in red thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, the text within black-ruled gold frame, opening bifolio with finely illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome bordered by illuminated margins, including one illustration of Majnun and his dog, colophon signed and dated, in 18th century Indian, stamped and gilt red morocco binding, some folios loose in binding
Text panel 6¼ x 3¼in. (13.5 x 8.3cm.); folio 7 x 4 3/8in. (17.7 x 11.1cm.)
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