SIGNED SHEIKH MAHMUD, BAGHDAD, DATED AH 867/1462-63 AD

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A SELECTION OF POEMS BY NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI
SIGNED SHEIKH MAHMUD, BAGHDAD, DATED AH 867/1462-63 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 54ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of elegant nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, the first bifolio with gold strapwork between the rules, occasional panels of text set centrally, gold and blue marginal rules, catchwords, gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece on the opening folio, colophon signed and dated, in soft green morocco with stamped central medallions
Text panel 6 x 3in. (15.1 x 7.6cm.); folio 9½ x 5½in. (24.2 x 14cm.)

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Lot Essay

There are two other recorded works by this scribe: a treatise copied in Shiraz and dated AH 864/1459-70 AD in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (cat. 134) and a divan of Hafiz dated AH 870/1465-66 AD in the Topkapi Library, Istanbul (F. E. Karatay, Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi Kutuphanesi Farsia Yazmalar Katalogu, Istanbul, 1961, cat. no. 628).

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