NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): TUHFAT AL-AHRAR
SIGNED SULTAN MUHAMMAD NUR, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): TUHFAT AL-AHRAR SIGNED SULTAN MUHAMMAD NUR, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY Poetry, Persian manuscript on variously coloured gold-speckled paper, 67ff. as numbered plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of fine black nasta'liq divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, headings and important words and phrases picked out in polychrome, text laid down between gold and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated with gold illumination, a few with polychrome medallions, the opening bifolio with elegant polychrome illumination surround 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against illuminated ground, one painting in the text, probably repainted, the colophon signed Sultan Muhammad Nur but undated, final folio with later owner's stamp, in contemporaneous black morocco with flap decorated with gilt stamped central panels surrounded by cartouches, all filled with arabesques and flowering vine, the doublures decorated with elegant decoupé on polychrome paper ground, accompanied by a note written in a 19th century hand describing the manuscript Text panel 4 7/8 x 2½in. (12.6 x 6.2cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 6¼in. (24.5 x 15.7cm.)
NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): TUHFAT AL-AHRAR
SIGNED SULTAN MUHAMMAD NUR, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D. AH 898/1492 AD): TUHFAT AL-AHRAR SIGNED SULTAN MUHAMMAD NUR, SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY Poetry, Persian manuscript on variously coloured gold-speckled paper, 67ff. as numbered plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of fine black nasta'liq divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, headings and important words and phrases picked out in polychrome, text laid down between gold and polychrome rules on wide coloured margins decorated with gold illumination, a few with polychrome medallions, the opening bifolio with elegant polychrome illumination surround 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against illuminated ground, one painting in the text, probably repainted, the colophon signed Sultan Muhammad Nur but undated, final folio with later owner's stamp, in contemporaneous black morocco with flap decorated with gilt stamped central panels surrounded by cartouches, all filled with arabesques and flowering vine, the doublures decorated with elegant decoupé on polychrome paper ground, accompanied by a note written in a 19th century hand describing the manuscript Text panel 4 7/8 x 2½in. (12.6 x 6.2cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 6¼in. (24.5 x 15.7cm.)
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