An Anthology of Poetry in Safina Form, Turkman or Timurid, Central Asia or Persia, circa 1500

Persian manuscript on paper, 76 leaves, illuminated frontispiece and endpiece decorated in colours and gold, with gold ropework borders and scrolling vines, opening headpiece with heading in white in a blue ground cartouche set in a gold panel, the text written diagonally and horizontally in neat Nasta'liq in black ink, each text panel with coloured corners with stencilled foliate designs, some leaves with later added gouache animals to the text panel corners, in a tooled red morocco binding heightened with gold dots

In good overall condition, some waterstaining throughout, slight rubbing to frontispiece, endpiece and headpieces, otherwise calligraphy strong, as viewed.
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