COPIED BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASSAN AL-TURANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 988/1580-81 AD

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AMIR KHUSRAW DIHLAWI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): HASHT BIHISHT
COPIED BY QUTB AL-DIN IBN HASSAN AL-TURANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 988/1580-81 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, with 80ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 20ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on gold-speckled ground divided into four columns with gold rules, headings in red, gold and silver nasta'liq, text panel with gold and blue rules, opening folio with illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece and heading in white nasta'liq on a gold ground, with four contemporaneous illustrations, colophon signed and dated tamam shod khamsa-ye amir khusrau dehlavi 'ala yad al-'abd al-mudhnib al-'asi qutb al-din ibn hasan al-turani ghafara dhunubahuma fi tarikh sana thaman wa thamanin wa tis'a-mi'ah, in later stamped and gilded brown morocco
Text panel 10¼ x 5¾in. (26 x 14.5cm.); folio 13¼ x 8 3/8in. (33.8 x 21.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

A certain Qutb al-Din Hassan al-Tuni copied a Diwan of Khaqani in AH 1113/1605 AD and the Hadiqat al-Haqa'iq of Sana'i in AH 1125/1617 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, Tehran, 1345 sh., no.789, p.583). Two folios from a Shahnama which had an original colophon signed by him are in this sale, lots 81 and 82. In the manuscript offered here, the a ra has later been added to the nisba al-Tuni to make it read al-Turani.

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