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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR
COPIED BY FATH 'ALI AL-HIJAB AL-SHIRAZI FOR MIRZA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1269/1852-3 AD
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR COPIED BY FATH 'ALI AL-HIJAB AL-SHIRAZI FOR MIRZA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1269/1852-3 AD A series of poems and versified legends of ethical and mystical significance, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 94ff. with 12ll. of elegant black nasta'liq divided into two columns with gold floral intercolumnar line between black rules, text blocks with gold and polychrome borders between blue and black rule, red and black outer borders, headings in white nasta'liq in gold cartouches against a blue ground with gold floral illumination, each page with guard sheet, opening bifolio with the text in clouds reserved against gold ground, delicately illuminated gold and polychrome borders with similar headpiece, colophon signed Fath 'Ali al-Hijab al-Shirazi for Mirza 'Abdullah Khan and dated AH 1269, with later frontispiece with a note by Mahdi ibn Mustafa al-Husayni al-Tafrashi, dated AH 1323, excellent condition, black shagreen binding with gold and polychrome floral medallion, spandrels and borders, red morocco doublures Text panel 6 7/8 x 3½in. (17.5 x 8.9cm.); folio 10¼ x 6½in. (26 x 16.6cm.)