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TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID HERAT, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
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SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D.1292): DIWAN
TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID HERAT, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 48ff., 6ll. of black nasta'liq variously arranged diagonally and horizontally, 2ll. of nasta'liq in panels to the left, interspersed with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, within gold and polychrome rules, laid down within variously coloured margins illuminated in gold, the opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a pink-hatched ground, first and final folios with later owners' annotations and a seal impression, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, lacquer doublures
Text panel 3 3⁄8 x 1 1⁄2in. (8.4 x 3.9cm.); folio 5 3⁄4 x 3 1⁄4in. (14.6 x 8.3cm.)
TIMURID OR EARLY SAFAVID HERAT, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 48ff., 6ll. of black nasta'liq variously arranged diagonally and horizontally, 2ll. of nasta'liq in panels to the left, interspersed with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, within gold and polychrome rules, laid down within variously coloured margins illuminated in gold, the opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a pink-hatched ground, first and final folios with later owners' annotations and a seal impression, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, lacquer doublures
Text panel 3 3⁄8 x 1 1⁄2in. (8.4 x 3.9cm.); folio 5 3⁄4 x 3 1⁄4in. (14.6 x 8.3cm.)
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