Lot 26
  • 26

Zahir al-Din Faryabi (d.1201 AD), Diwan, signed by Ghiyath al-Qasimi, Persia, Timurid, dated 883 AH/1478 AD

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • ink on paper, bound
Persian manuscript on paper, 143 leaves, 12 lines to the page, written in neat nasta’liq script in black ink, text in two columns, rules in blue and gold, f.1b with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in leather binding

Provenance

Ex-collection Mehdi Bayani.

Condition

In generally good condition, some folios loose and missing catchwords, stains and mould affecting mainly the upper external corner, some losses to the headpiece, the calligraphy bold, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

Mehdi Bayani records Ghiyath al-Qasimi as an obscure fifteenth-century scribe and this is his only recorded work.

Several ownership notes and seals are present on the first and last leaves, including one which can be compared to another almost identical on the Kitab al-aghani ('Book of Songs'), now in the Millet Yazma Eser Kutuphanesi, Istanbul (Roxburgh 2005, p.97) and on lot 24 of this current sale.