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SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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A POETRY ANTHOLOGY
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
In praise of the Prophet Muhammad and Imam 'Ali and on the story of Layla and Majnun, Persian manuscript on variously coloured paper, 58ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, with black-ruled gold double division, headings in gold nasta'liq script in cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, including one illustration of Majnun in the desert, with catchwords, incomplete at beginning and end, in modern gilt green binding
Text panel 4 ¼ x 2 ½in. (10.9 x 6.2cm.); folio 7 x 4 ½in. (17.7 x 11.5cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
In praise of the Prophet Muhammad and Imam 'Ali and on the story of Layla and Majnun, Persian manuscript on variously coloured paper, 58ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, with black-ruled gold double division, headings in gold nasta'liq script in cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, including one illustration of Majnun in the desert, with catchwords, incomplete at beginning and end, in modern gilt green binding
Text panel 4 ¼ x 2 ½in. (10.9 x 6.2cm.); folio 7 x 4 ½in. (17.7 x 11.5cm.)
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