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Nizami Ganjavi - Khamsah - Persian manuscript

Nizami Ganjavi - Khamsah - Persian manuscript

description

Summary

Manuscript.
Persian.
Title supplied from container.
Scribe not identified.
Written in India?
Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of a floral design of repeating flowers in alternating rose and pink on a gold background; remainder of text has outer ruled bord of thin blue, white, gold, red and dark blue; text block within ruled border in blue, white, red, blue, a wider floral border and an inner border of blue and red; sections separated by a horizontal block in gold; hemistichs divided by a wide dark blue vertical divider with gold highlighting; black ink; catchwords.
Nastaʻlīq; 15 lines in written area 13 x 6.2 cm.
Numerous miniatures throughout the text.
Fol. 1b-466b (incomplete)
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M19.
Binding; disbound; text block and many pages loose in remainder of binding which is brown leather; spine lacking.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

date_range

Date

01/01/1600
place

Location

washington dc
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Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

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