QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, COPIED FROM A SAFAVID ORIGINAL

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ARABIC QASIDAS
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER, COPIED FROM A SAFAVID ORIGINAL
Poetry, Arabic manuscript on paper, 44ff., plus two flyleaves, with small black naskh interspersed with large lines of thuluth, smaller lines of thuluth written on the diagonal to the right, keywords picked out in red, 3ff. signed and dated, a bifolio with two illustrations after each qasida, folios laid down within purple paper margins with gold floral illumination, frontispiece later added, in red gilt-stamped binding
Text panel 8 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄2in. (22.4 x 16.6cm.); folio 14 3⁄8 x 10 1⁄4in. (36.4 x 26.1cm.)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript has been copied from a Safavid original which is housed in the National Library, Iran. The qasidas included in the manuscript are as follows: al-Qasida al-Fa’iyya of Ibn al-Farid, al-Qasida al-Tantaraniyya (called here al-Qasida al-Raji’iyya) of Mu’in al-Din Abu Nasr Ahmad al-Tantarani and Qasidat al-Burda of al-Busiri with an interlinear Persian commentary on the Prayer of the 12 Imams of Nasir al-Din Tusi.

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