SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

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ILLUMINATED FOLIOS FROM A POETIC MANUSCRIPT
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Text comprising both the Bustan and Gulistan of Sa'di, Persian manuscript on dyed paper, 36ff. each with 9ll. of elegant black nasta'liq, key words picked out in gold, white, and polychrome black and polychrome borders, the margins inscribed with further poetry written on the diagonal, within gold and polychrome outer rules, catchwords, the borders of gold-speckled paper, unbound
Text panel 7 ¼ x 3 7⁄8in. (18.5 x 9.8cm.); folio 10 ½ x 6 1⁄8in. (26.7 x 15.6cm.)

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The text in the central panel is from the Gulistan of Sa‘di, that in the margins is from the Bustan

Another folio from this manuscript is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 1978.84).

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