SIGNED MUHAMMAD MA'SUM AL-HARAWI, ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED RABI' I AH 1013/JULY-AUGUST 1604 AD

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KHWAJA SHAMS AL-DIN HAFIZ SHIRAZI (1320-90 AD): DIWAN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD MA'SUM AL-HARAWI, ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED RABI' I AH 1013/JULY-AUGUST 1604 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript in verse on gold speckled paper, 139ff. as numbered plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black nasta'liq organized in two columns with black and gold intercolumnar divisions, titles in gold within separate panels, within gold and polychrome borders, the first folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, some pages with pink margins, in Ottoman gilt brown morocco with flap, green paper doublures, front cover separate
Text panel 5¼ x 2¾in. (13.4 x 7cm.); folio 7 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (19.3 x 12.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

The scribe, Muhammad Ma'sum al-Harawi, is only recorded by a Shahnama in the Chester Beatty Library, dated circa 1575 (Arberry, A.J. (ed.), The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin, 1962, catalogue no. 295).

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