£3,500 - £5,000
"A TREATISE ON RHYME (QAFIYAH),
PERSIA, QAZWIN,
DATED AH 957/ AD 1550-51"
Persian manuscript on paper, 22 +1 folios, 10 lines black nasta’liq script, significant words in red and blue, gold, blue and red illuminated opening bifolium with white nastaliq ‘basmala’, contemporary annotations on the opening bifolio, text outlined with gold and blue, brown leather binding with stencilled floral motifs, without flap
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