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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR AND ISKANDARNAMA
SCHOOL OF MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, DATED AH 1069/1658-59 AD
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU MUHAMMAD NIZAMI (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD): MAKHZAN AL-ASRAR AND ISKANDARNAMA SCHOOL OF MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, DATED AH 1069/1658-59 AD Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream paper, 96ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns with double gold intercolumar rule, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, catchwords, headings in red on gold panels, opening folio with illuminated headpiece surmounting text in clouds reserved against gold ground, one further similar headpiece in the text, with nine contemporaneous paintings, most folios remargined, in later lacquer binding decorated with floral designs, the doublures covered with marbled paper Text panel 10 x 5½in. (25.8 x 14cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 7 7/8in. (33.9 x 20cm.)