LOT 285 A LARGE MANUSCRIPT OF KHAMSEH BY NIZAMI, IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
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Incomplete manuscript on paper, Persian text of 21 lines per page on four columns in nasta’liq script in black ink. Titles of the five illuminated sections of a later frontispiece in unwan inscribed in white letters in a golden cartouche on a blue background of florets, surmounted by a golden arch with blue medallions, interspersed with flowery black cartridges. Subtitles in the body of the text in red letters and a few lines of text at an oblique angle. It is likely that the thumbnails that illustrated the text have been removed. Later binding, 19th century in green leather with multi-lobed medallion and stamped appendages with floral decoration painted in salmon pink and enhanced with gold. With a brown leather case with multi-lobed medallion and appendages stamped with a floral decoration. Two property stamps. The text includes the five chapters of Khamseh: The Treasure of the Makhzan-ol-Asrar Mysteries; Khosrow and Chirine (not completed); Leyla and Madjnoun; The Seven Haft-Peikar Beauties, the Book of Alexander Eskandar-Name. 32.5 by 21 cm.
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