AFZAL AL-DIN BADIL IBRAHIM IBN `ALI KHAQANI SHIRVANI (D. CIRCA 1190): KULLIYAT

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Lot 38 | AFZAL AL-DIN BADIL IBRAHIM IBN 'ALI KHAQANI SHIRVANI (D. CIRCA 1190): KULLIYAT
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AFZAL AL-DIN BADIL IBRAHIM IBN 'ALI KHAQANI SHIRVANI (D. CIRCA 1190): KULLIYAT

PROBABLY SAFAVID HERAT, DATED MUHARRAM AH 976/JUNE-JULY 1568 AD

Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 259ff., plus four flyleaves, each folio with 14ll. black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, gold and black intercolumnar rules, text panel within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, finely gold and polychrome illuminated opening bifolium with 6ll. text in clouds reserved against floral gold ground and headings in white nasta'liq in gold cartouches, colophon dated, opening flyleaf with later owner notes, in later green leather stamped binding

Text panel 6 1/8 x 3 1/4in. (15.5 x 8.2cm.); folio 9 x 5 7/8in. (23 x 15.3cm.)





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