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SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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ABU AL-QASIM FIRDAWSI (D. 1025-26 AD): SHAHNAMA
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Firdawsi's Book of Kings, Persian manuscript on paper, 619ff., two fly-leaves, 22ll. of black nasta'liq to the page arranged in four columns between double gold divisions, titles in red nasta'liq, text within blue, black and gold rules, with catchwords, opening bifolio finely illuminated in gold and polychrome on blue ground, with book plate of Alfred M Kahn, in black morocco
Text panel 9 x 6 ¼in. (23 x 15.8cm.); folio 13 ½ x 9 ½in. (34.3 x 24cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Firdawsi's Book of Kings, Persian manuscript on paper, 619ff., two fly-leaves, 22ll. of black nasta'liq to the page arranged in four columns between double gold divisions, titles in red nasta'liq, text within blue, black and gold rules, with catchwords, opening bifolio finely illuminated in gold and polychrome on blue ground, with book plate of Alfred M Kahn, in black morocco
Text panel 9 x 6 ¼in. (23 x 15.8cm.); folio 13 ½ x 9 ½in. (34.3 x 24cm.)
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