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CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY
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NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): TUHFAT AL-AHRAR
CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY
A series of poems and versified legends of ethical and mystical significance, Persian manuscript on paper, 61ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on gold-speckled ground, the text in two columns with gold rules, headings in red, text panels within gold rules, opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated heading and borders, the colophon with the lower half of the folio and the margins fully illuminated, margins restored, in later stamped and gilded green morocco
Text panel 5¾ x 2¾in. (14.5 x 6.8cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 5¾in. (25 x 14.5cm.)
CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY
A series of poems and versified legends of ethical and mystical significance, Persian manuscript on paper, 61ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on gold-speckled ground, the text in two columns with gold rules, headings in red, text panels within gold rules, opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated heading and borders, the colophon with the lower half of the folio and the margins fully illuminated, margins restored, in later stamped and gilded green morocco
Text panel 5¾ x 2¾in. (14.5 x 6.8cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 5¾in. (25 x 14.5cm.)
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