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TIMURID IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
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TIMURID IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 97ff. as numbered plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of elegant black naskh in panels outlined in gold, black and blue, gold and blue rosette verse markers, headings in gold thuluth occasionally in polychrome illuminated panels, occasional marginal notes, first folio with elegant gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surmounting text, one further similar headpiece, opening fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes including an attribution to Ya'qut al-Musta'simi, in European brown morocco with gilt stamped design, marbled paper covered doublures
Text panel 6 ¾ x 3 5/8in. (17 x 9.3cm.); folio 10 ¼ x 6 ¾in. (25.9 x 17.1cm.)
TIMURID IRAN, 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 97ff. as numbered plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of elegant black naskh in panels outlined in gold, black and blue, gold and blue rosette verse markers, headings in gold thuluth occasionally in polychrome illuminated panels, occasional marginal notes, first folio with elegant gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece surmounting text, one further similar headpiece, opening fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes including an attribution to Ya'qut al-Musta'simi, in European brown morocco with gilt stamped design, marbled paper covered doublures
Text panel 6 ¾ x 3 5/8in. (17 x 9.3cm.); folio 10 ¼ x 6 ¾in. (25.9 x 17.1cm.)
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