Jami, Haft Awrang, poetry Persia, dated AH 981/AD 1573-74


Persian manuscript on paper, 367 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink in two columns, a third column written diagonally, headings written in red, intercolumnar rules in black and gold, inner margins ruled in black, gold, red and blue, opening illuminated headpiece a replacement from another manuscript, folio 1 also remargined, four further headpieces (belonging) in colours and gold at beginning of chapters, brown leather with stamped central medallions, rebacked 255 x 160 mm.
|The text starts with Salaman va Absal (the second book of the Haft Awrang). It is not clear if this manuscript is misbound or arranged differently from the more usual order. It is dated AH 981/AD 1573-74 at the end of the third book of Silsilat al-dhahab.