Lot 190 A LARGE MANUSCRIPT OF KHAMSEH BY NIZAMI, PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY
Incomplete manuscript on paper, Persian text of 21 lines per page on four columns in nasta’liq script in black ink. Titles of the five illuminated sections of a later frontispiece in unwan inscribed in white letters in a golden cartouche on a blue background of florets, surmounted by a golden arch with blue medallions, interspersed with flowery black cartridges. Subtitles in the body of the text in red letters and a few lines of text at an oblique angle. It is likely that the thumbnails that illustrated the text have been removed. Later binding, 19th century in green leather with multi-lobed medallion and stamped appendages with floral decoration painted in salmon pink and enhanced with gold. With a brown leather case with multi-lobed medallion and appendages stamped with a floral decoration. Two property stamps. The text includes the five chapters of Khamseh: The Treasure of the Makhzan-ol-Asrar Mysteries; Khosrow and Chirine (not completed); Leyla and Madjnoun; The Seven Haft-Peikar Beauties, the Book of Alexander Eskandar-Name. 32.5 by 21 cm.