Jamal Al-Din Abu Muhammad Nizami (D.1209): Khamsa

Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 350ff. with three fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, gold intercolumnar rules, text occasionally written on the diagonal with gold and polychrome floral decoration in the triangular panels between, text panels with gold, black and blue rules, headings in gold against a polychrome scrolling floral ground, plain paper margins, catchwords and later pagination, opening bifolio with 7ll. black nasta'liq in clouds reserved against flowering gold and polychrome ground, within finely illuminated gold and polychrome panels, opening of each book with a similarly illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, 22 illustrations in opaque pigments and gold within the text, colophon dated, seal impressions and previous owners' notes on the opening and closing fly-leaves, occasional further seal impressions throughout, text block painted blue, in later gilt decorated red morocco binding, marbled paper doublures, later paper labels on the cover and spine

Estimate:£70,000

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