AFDAL AL-DIN KHAQANI (D. AH 582/1185-86 AD): TUHFAT AL-'IRAQAYN

COPIED BY 'ABD AL-GHANI, PROBABLY BUKHARA OR SAMARQAND, DATED MUHARRAM AH 1025/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1616 AD

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AFDAL AL-DIN KHAQANI (D. AH 582/1185-86 AD): TUHFAT AL-'IRAQAYN
COPIED BY 'ABD AL-GHANI, PROBABLY BUKHARA OR SAMARQAND, DATED MUHARRAM AH 1025/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1616 AD
A description of the poet's journey from Shirvan to Mecca and his return, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 124ff. each with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, catchwords, margins ruled in colours and gold, headings in blue or white on gold panels surrounded by polychrome illumination, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, colophon signed 'Abd al-Ghani and dated Muharram 1025, later owner's seal impressions, some rubbing and staining, in brown morocco with central stamped medallion
Text panel 6¼ x 2¾in. (16 x 7cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 5in. (24.5 x 12.5cm.)

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拍品專文

There are two contemporary scribes with the name 'Abd al-Ghani. They are both obsucre and only known by single recorded works (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran, 1346 sh, pp. 406-7).

A number of later library notes and stamps on the fly-leaves suggest that the manuscript was at some point in India.