Lot Essay
Jamal al-Din Muhammad Ardistani is little-known author of spiritual verse. He was a wandering Sufi who founded his own order. This manuscript was written within his lifetime.
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TIMURID IRAN, DATED THE LAST DAY OF JUMADA II AH 875/24 DECEMBER 1470 AD
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JAMAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD ARDISTANI (D. AH 879/1474-5 AD): KANZ AL-DAQA'IQ
TIMURID IRAN, DATED THE LAST DAY OF JUMADA II AH 875/24 DECEMBER 1470 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 60ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of neat black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, text panels similarly outlined, headings and important phrases in red, opening bifolio with two shamsas each with 6ll. of elegant black-outlined gold thuluth, the following bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against pink hatched ground, colophon dated and with gold floral flourishes to each side, opening fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes, some stuck in, in later brown morocco with flap, paper covered doublures
Text panel 4 x 2 1/8in. (10.2 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (16.1 x 10cm.)
TIMURID IRAN, DATED THE LAST DAY OF JUMADA II AH 875/24 DECEMBER 1470 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 60ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of neat black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, text panels similarly outlined, headings and important phrases in red, opening bifolio with two shamsas each with 6ll. of elegant black-outlined gold thuluth, the following bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of nasta'liq in clouds reserved against pink hatched ground, colophon dated and with gold floral flourishes to each side, opening fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes, some stuck in, in later brown morocco with flap, paper covered doublures
Text panel 4 x 2 1/8in. (10.2 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (16.1 x 10cm.)
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