NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. 1492 AD): A SELECTION OF GHAZALS AND A QUATRAIN

COPIED BY FAKHR AL-DIN AHMAD, JANNAT ABAD, IRAN, DATED AH 872/1467-68 AD

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NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. 1492 AD): A SELECTION OF GHAZALS AND A QUATRAIN
COPIED BY FAKHR AL-DIN AHMAD, JANNAT ABAD, IRAN, DATED AH 872/1467-68 AD
Copied within the life time of the author, poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 42ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of fine black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, text panels similarly outlined, headings in red, gold or blue within separate panels, some headings more elaborately written in clouds reserved against hatched ground in gold outlined cartouches, catchwords, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surrounding central title in gold kufic script, colophon signed Fakhr al-Din Ahmad in Jannat Abad and dated 872, some scuffing and staining, in later brown morocco with stamped central medallions, plain paper doublures
Text panel 5½ x 3 1/8in. (14 x 7.8cm.); folio 8 x 5 1/8in. (20.2 x 13.2cm.)

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Fakhr al-Din Ahmad was an obscure 15th century scribe. One of his few recorded works was copied in Baghdad (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, Vol. I, Tehran 1345 sh., pp. 43-44). The place of Jannat Abad where this manuscript has been copied is a very common place name.

This manuscript was in Turkey and bears the seal of Mustafa III (AH 1171-87/1757-74 AD), which he used when manuscripts were given as waqf.

Other notes are receipts of items between a certain Jafar and the writer of the notes in AH 1258/1842-43 AD.

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