Niva'i, Ali Shir. Diwan. Illustrated and Illuminated Turkish Manuscript on Paper Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century, copied by 'Abdallah ibn Sheikh Murshid al-Shirazi, Ottoman Turkey, with an 18th Century Deccani Lacquer Binding 246 leaves, 10 miniatures including an illustrated double page frontispiece followed by an illuminated double page opening in colours and gold, gold sprinkled buff cream paper throughout, approximately 13 lines per page in fine nasta'liq text in two columns, intercolumnar rules in gold, marginal rules in colours and gold, headings throughout in white or gold thuluth against a white or gold ground and scrolling foliate motif in colours and gold, final section of text interspersed with panels illuminated in colours and gold, and lines of text in cloud bands against a hatched red ground, colophon with date of A.H.1008/A.D.1599 added, later Deccani lacquer binding with losses, various seals of ownership include Prince Bahman Mirza's various seals, as well as the seals of various Persian high officials, a note attached to the doublure with a seal impression written in Persian records the (added) date and title of the manuscript and is signed "29 October 1899, city of Tiflis" 24.7 by 16cm.
Niva'i, Ali Shir. Diwan. Illustrated and Illuminated Turkish Manuscript on Paper Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century, copied by 'Abdallah ibn Sheikh Murshid al-Shirazi, Ottoman Turkey, with an 18th Century Deccani Lacquer Binding 246 leaves, 10 miniatures including an illustrated double page frontispiece followed by an illuminated double page opening in colours and gold, gold sprinkled buff cream paper throughout, approximately 13 lines per page in fine nasta'liq text in two columns, intercolumnar rules in gold, marginal rules in colours and gold, headings throughout in white or gold thuluth against a white or gold ground and scrolling foliate motif in colours and gold, final section of text interspersed with panels illuminated in colours and gold, and lines of text in cloud bands against a hatched red ground, colophon with date of A.H.1008/A.D.1599 added, later Deccani lacquer binding with losses, various seals of ownership include Prince Bahman Mirza's various seals, as well as the seals of various Persian high officials, a note attached to the doublure with a seal impression written in Persian records the (added) date and title of the manuscript and is signed "29 October 1899, city of Tiflis" 24.7 by 16cm.
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