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Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (d.1492 ), Kulliyat, copied by Mir ibn Muhib Rashidi, Persia, Safavid, late 16th century

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Description

Persian manuscript on paper, 491 leaves, plus 3 fly leaves, 21 lines to the page written in nasta'liq in black ink, headings picked out in red, within gold and polychrome rules, f.1a with illuminated frontispiece, following bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing text, the start of each text marked by a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in lacquer binding, the binding signed Muhammad 'Ali and dated 1176 AH/1762-63 AD

text panel: 21.5 by 11.8cm.

leaf: 33.5 by 20.3cm.

This manuscript compiles Jami's works ordered according to the date that they were produced. The texts included in the manuscript are as follows:

- Subhat al-Abrar

- Yusuf wa Zulayakha

- Layla wa Majnun

- Khirad nameh-i Eskandari

- Silsilat al-Dhahab

- Daftar-i ‘adl

- Aghaz-i daftar-i sevvom az silsilat al-dhahab

- Daftar-i ‘ishq

- Salaman wa Absal

- Tuhfat al-Ahrar

- The third divan of the qasidas

- The third Divan of the ghazals  

- Shawahid al-Nubuwwa (on the Prophet), in prose

- Sharh qasida mimiyya khamriyya

- Sharh-i qasida thaniya fariziyyah

- Sharh-i ruba’iyyat

- Sharh-i Lawami

- No title

- Sharh-i baytayn mathnawi mawlawi

- Sharh-i hadith-i abi razi ‘aqili

 - Sharh-i kalameh-ye tayyibe-ye la ilah illa allah

 - No title, on Khwaja Muhammad Parsa