Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. AH 898/1492 AD): Diwan Safavid Persia, AH 971-972/1563-64 AD Comprising Tuhfat al-ahrar, Salaman wa Absal, Silsilat al-thahab, Layla wa Majnun, Yusuf wa Zulaykha, Subhat al-abrar, Khiradnama-i Iskandari, Fardiyat, Risalah qafiyah, Muqtati'at, Ruba'iyat, Wasitat-i al-'aqd, Khatimat-i al-hayyat, and Tuhfat-i al-shabab, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled light buff paper, 440ff. with 14ll. of black nasta'liq in two gold-outlined columns written horizontally with approximately 25ll. of smaller nasta'liq written diagonally in two columns around the main text, margins, corner-pieces, and inter-columnar rules on each page decorated with floral motifs in gold on blue, orange and pink grounds, headings and significant verses picked out in white and gold, chapter headings in rectangular panels illuminated with gold and polychrome, opening finely illuminated gold and polychrome shamsa bifolio containing the names of the different works within gold roundels, following similarly illuminated bifolio with the title Diwan and Mawlana Abdul-Rahman Jami written in fine gold nasta'liq on blue panels, thirty two double pages with lavishly iluminated borders depicting exotic birds and animals such as sinmurghs , dragons and gazelles among trees, flowers and foliage in gold and in silver when depicting water, surrounding the miniatures and the beginning of the individual works, nineteen large miniatures, folios 349a, 432a, and 440a with four colophons giving the name of the scribe as Shah Muhammud al-Katib al-Shirazi and dated 971 and 972, each miniature with a large seal impression containing Qur'an sura II verse 129 in the margin, manuscript overall in good condition, slight water staining to lower edge of folios, miniatures in good condition, occasional small repairs, in 19th century black morocco binding with gold tooled central panel and spandrels in the Safavid style, decoupé doublures Folio 16.1/8 x 10¼in. (41 x 26.2cm.); miniatures and text area 10¼ x 5.7/8in. (26.2 x 15cm.)
Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. AH 898/1492 AD): Diwan Safavid Persia, AH 971-972/1563-64 AD Comprising Tuhfat al-ahrar, Salaman wa Absal, Silsilat al-thahab, Layla wa Majnun, Yusuf wa Zulaykha, Subhat al-abrar, Khiradnama-i Iskandari, Fardiyat, Risalah qafiyah, Muqtati'at, Ruba'iyat, Wasitat-i al-'aqd, Khatimat-i al-hayyat, and Tuhfat-i al-shabab, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled light buff paper, 440ff. with 14ll. of black nasta'liq in two gold-outlined columns written horizontally with approximately 25ll. of smaller nasta'liq written diagonally in two columns around the main text, margins, corner-pieces, and inter-columnar rules on each page decorated with floral motifs in gold on blue, orange and pink grounds, headings and significant verses picked out in white and gold, chapter headings in rectangular panels illuminated with gold and polychrome, opening finely illuminated gold and polychrome shamsa bifolio containing the names of the different works within gold roundels, following similarly illuminated bifolio with the title Diwan and Mawlana Abdul-Rahman Jami written in fine gold nasta'liq on blue panels, thirty two double pages with lavishly iluminated borders depicting exotic birds and animals such as sinmurghs , dragons and gazelles among trees, flowers and foliage in gold and in silver when depicting water, surrounding the miniatures and the beginning of the individual works, nineteen large miniatures, folios 349a, 432a, and 440a with four colophons giving the name of the scribe as Shah Muhammud al-Katib al-Shirazi and dated 971 and 972, each miniature with a large seal impression containing Qur'an sura II verse 129 in the margin, manuscript overall in good condition, slight water staining to lower edge of folios, miniatures in good condition, occasional small repairs, in 19th century black morocco binding with gold tooled central panel and spandrels in the Safavid style, decoupé doublures Folio 16.1/8 x 10¼in. (41 x 26.2cm.); miniatures and text area 10¼ x 5.7/8in. (26.2 x 15cm.)
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