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Nizami, Khusrau va Shirin, love poetry, perhaps copied by the well-known calligrapher Muhammad Shafi', known as Vesal, or Mirza Kuchak Qajar Persia, first half of the 19th Century and later
Persian manuscript on paper, 129 leaves, approximately 12-13 lines to the page written horizontally and diagonally in three columns of elegant shikasteh script in black ink, gilt interlinear and intercolumnar rules, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, headings written in shikasteh in red ink, catchwords, one illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, five full-page miniatures added in the 20th Century with loss of some text, in good condition, 19th Century floral lacquer binding, missing lower cover, rebacked, doublure decorated with a gilt iris on a red ground 183 x 112 mm.