IL-KHANID IRAN, 14TH CENTURY

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SHEIKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (d.AH 961/1292 AD): COLLECTED WORKS
IL-KHANID IRAN, 14TH CENTURY
Persian and Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 290ff., with 19ll. in 2 columns of black naskh verging on nasta'liq in red margins with headings in blue and red, illuminated headpieces before each group of works in blue and gold, last page missing, modern reproduction lacquered Kashmiri binding, minor staining, some marking, past owners' notes, good condition
Folio 9 x 5¾in. (23 x 15cm)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript includes his Arabic and Persian qasa'id (long odes), kitab al-badayi', ghazals (odes), kitab al-sahibiyya , qata'at (a form of poetry in which the first and second verse do not rhyme), khabithat (impurities), ruba'iyat (quatrains) and mufradat (single couplets).

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