SHARAF AL-DIN ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD B. HASSAN AL-BUSIRI (D.1296-97 AD), QASIDA AL-BURDA, PERSIA, SAFAVID, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

SHARAF AL-DIN ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD B. HASSAN AL-BUSIRI (D.1296-97 AD), QASIDA AL-BURDA, PERSIA, SAFAVID, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on thick blue paper, 28 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 7 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in black or gold thuluth, the intervening lines in neat black naskh, ruled in gold, black and red, f.1b with a polychrome and gold headpiece (‘unwan), in European binding

text panel: 13.5 by 8.4cm.

leaf: 22 by 13cm.