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SEVEN RENOWNED WORKS OF PERSIAN POETRY
MOSTLY INDIA, 17TH-19TH CENTURY
SEVEN RENOWNED WORKS OF PERSIAN POETRY MOSTLY INDIA, 17TH-19TH CENTURY Comprising Rumi's Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi , Kashmir, 18th century, 515ff., each folio with 20ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in three columns, with old label "Presented to St.Augustines College Library by The Rev. Thomas Robinson D.D., Late Archdeacon of Madras" and ex libris of D.S.Robertson, in 19th century Indian brown morocco binding; probably another copy of Rumi's diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi , India, 18th/early 19th century, 397ff. as numbered, each folio with 14ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, further text written diagonally around the main text panel, incomplete at end, with polychrome illuminated heading, ex libris of D.S.Robertson, in burgoundy morocco binding; Rumi's Mathnawi , India, signed 'Inayatullah bin 'Abd al-Rashid and dated 4 Rajab AH 1134, comprising Books I, II and III, 144ff. plus 185ff., followed by another text, dated Rajab AH 1144 with preface mentioning the date of AH 1032, each folio with 15ll. of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, ex libris of D.S.Robertson, in black morocco binding with flap; Sa'di's Diwan , India or Central Asia, 17th century, each folio with 15ll. Of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, incomplete at end, in gilt and stamped black morocco binding, with slip case; Sa'di's Bustan , India, 18th century, each folio with 15ll. Of black nasta'liq script, with illuminated opening bifolio, ex libris of Giles Robertson, incomplete at end; another copy of Sa'di's Bustan , India, 18th century, each folio with 15ll. Of black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns, in brown morocco binding; and Amir Khusraw's Diwan , India, dated AH 1239, 41ff., each folio with 8ll. arranged in quatrains, gold illuminated opening bifolio, in marbled paper cover binding (7)