"DIWAN OF AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (725AH-1324AD) COPIED BY MUH...

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"DIWAN OF AMIR KHUSRAW DEHLAVI (725AH-1324AD)
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD IBN MUHAMMAD BAQQAL
WITH THE SEAL OF SULTAN BAYEZID LL
AFTER IN THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD WHYTELL ROTTON (D. 1810 IN INDIA)
WESTERN IRAN, TIMURID
CIRCA 1460-80"

"Persian manuscript on paper, 321 folios, each with 17 lines of black nasta’liq, set in two columns, between columns double gold rules, illuminated opening bifolio, text in clouds,
The seal impression of the Ottoman Sultan and bibliophile Bayezid ll is on f.1r.

Muhammad BAQQAL’s Shahname manuscripts dated 808AH-1463-64AD in the TOPKAPI Palace Library,
Another one (Shahname) dated 885AH-1480-81AD is in CHESTER BEATTY Library
Text: 13.6 x 7.4 cm
page: 21.5 x 13 cm
Sotheby's, Islamic and Indian Art, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 30 April 1992, lot 351.
Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Baqqal copied two Shahnamehs dated between AH 868 /1463 and AH 885 /1480, preserved in the Topkapi Saray Library and the Chester Beatty Library respectively (A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures. Vol.II. MSS. 151-220, Dublin, 1960, Pers 157, pp. 9-11). A square stamp on the flyleaf: Rawshan al-Dawlah Mubariz al-Mulk Richard Vital Ratin As'ad Bahadur Sabit Jang 32, belongs to Richard Whytell Rotton (d. 1810).
The same stamp appears on another manuscript in the Manchester Library (Baharistan-i Jami (Persian MS"