AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): MATLA` AL-ANWAR

Lot 56
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 8 000
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Lot 56 | AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): MATLA' AL-ANWAR
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (D. AH 725/1324-25 AD): MATLA' AL-ANWAR

COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED SHA'BAN AH 989/SEPTEMBER 1581 AD

Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream burnished paper, 132ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in two columns with headings in red ink, within orange, gold and blue rules, catchwords, opening folio with gold and blue headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in elegant contemporaneous binding with flap with blind tooled panels, doublures in brown leather with decoupé arabesque medallion with pendants and spandrels over blue panels

Text panel 5 7/8 x 2 7/8in. (14.9 x 7.5cm.); folio 7 3/4 x 5 1/4in. (19.6 x 13.2cm.)





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