The forty hadith of the Prophet with their versifications by ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami, copied by Dust Muhammad ibn Khawaja Muhammad al-Bukhari, Samarqand, 16th century

Arabic and Persian manuscript on polished paper, 9 leaves, plus 4 flyleaves, 9 lines to the page, comprising 3 lines written in large thuluth script in black ink within cloud bands against a hatched ground (the hadith texts), with 6 lines in between written in smaller naskh script sprinkled with gold (the Persian versifications), catchwords, margins ruled in colours and gold, double page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, earlier Ottoman 15th-century gilt-stamped binding with rope-work border, leather abraded 

In reasonably good overall condition, leather abraded from main area of binding, thumbed, with some water staining to leaf edges throughout, calligraphic area clean, as viewed.
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