NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492 AD): KITAB BAHARISTAN

TIMURID IRAN, LATE 15TH CENTURY

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NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492 AD): KITAB BAHARISTAN
TIMURID IRAN, LATE 15TH CENTURY
An early copy of this work by Jami, possibly contemporary to the author, poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 37ff. plus eight fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of small black naskh script, some words picked out in red, the main text bordered with poetry from Jami's diwan written diagonally in small black nasta'liq script, text within black-ruled gold frame, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated title cartouche and illuminated triangular medallions, with catchwords, originally part of a larger work, in modern burgoundy morocco binding
Main text panel 6¼ x 5¼in. (13.4 x 8.2cm.); folio 9 x 5 5/8in. (22.8 x 14.3cm.)

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An owner's note on the fly-leaf indicates that "The hand of [the present] Baharistan closely resembles that of Jami in the St Petersburg autograph. The diwan seems to be in a different, but contemporary, hand. The arrangement of the poems corresponds exactly with that of the Petersburg ms. as given by [Baron Victor] Rosen, except for the ommission here of the couple beginning Gaft dana'y immediately before the final quatrain".

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