A COMPENDIUM OF POETRY

Lot 53
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 7 000
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Lot 53 | A COMPENDIUM OF POETRY
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A COMPENDIUM OF POETRY

SIGNED KHUSRAW IBN HASAN AL-HUSAYNI, SAFAVID SHIRAZ, COMPLETED 26 JUMADA AL-AWWAL AH 932/10 MARCH 1526 AD

Comprising the Khamsa of Jalal al-Din Abu Muhammad Nizami (c.1141-1209) and the Khamsa of Amir Khusraw (1253-1325), Persian manuscript on paper, 417ff. 25ll. black nasta'liq script arranged in four columns, occasional words picked out in red, set within gold rules, the margins with additional verses set diagonally, within gold and blue outer rules, catchwords, the pages with red edging, section headings in blue and gold thuluth, each section with illuminated headpiece with bismallah and dated colophon, the final 103 pages replaced with later hand on Indian paper, in gilt tooled black leather binding, the doublures of marbled paper

Text panel 6 5/8 x 4 ¼in. (16.8 x 10.8cm.); folio 9 ½ x 6 ¼in. (24.2 x 15.6cm.)

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