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AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN
AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN
AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN
AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN
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AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN

SIGNED JALAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD, TURKMAN SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1490

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AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D.1325): DIVAN
SIGNED JALAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD, TURKMAN SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1490
Persian manuscript on finely burnished paper, 356ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. fine black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, section headings in gold thuluth against lightly illuminated blue and gold cartouches, set within blue and gold rules, the margins plain, catchwords, the opening bifolio with 7ll. black nasta'liq reserved against gold cloudbands with illuminated cartouches of white thuluth above and below and finely illuminated margins, with 8 later Safavid-style full-page illustrations, the colophon signed, in gilt stamped black leather binding, the doublures red leather
Text panel 6 1⁄8 x 3 1⁄8 in. (15.6 x 7.8cm.); folio 9 ¾ x 6in. (24.7 x 15.2cm.)
Provenance
Madame Djahanguir Riahi Collection sold Sotheby's, Paris, 6 July 2017, lot 83

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Lot Essay

Amir Khusraw Dehlavi (1253-1325), the "Parrot of India", is considered the greatest Persian language poet of medieval India. His knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindi allowed him to produce an exciting new repertoire of literary puns and wordplays in his lyrics, panegyrics and epics (Annemarie Schimmel, "Amir Kosrow Dehlavi", E. Yarshater (ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol.1, Pennsylvania, 1989, pp.963-965).

The style and palette of illumination found on the opening frontispiece of the this copy relates closely to that found in Shirazi manuscripts of the late 15th century. An illustrated Mihr O Mushtari of Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi dated AH 895 / 1490 AD with similarly illuminated opening bifolio was sold in these Rooms 1 May 2025, lot 37.

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