Qajar Era Item Sold in Auction: Lot Description OMAR KHAYYAM (D. 1131 AD): RUBAIYAT COPIED BY ALI TAQI AL-SHIRAZI BIN MIRZA YUSUF MUZAHHIB BASHI, WRITTEN FOR AQA MIRZA AHMAD KHAN, QAJAR IRAN, DATED JUMADA I AH 1337/FEBRUARY-MARCH 1919 AD Poetry, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 111ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of neat black nastaliq arranged in two columns, with gold interlinear and intercolumnar divisions, text panels with gold and polychrome rules, single gold outer rule, catchwords, headings in red, blue and yellow nastaliq on blue-outlined gold cartouches on gold illuminated borders, first page of the text with illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome, similarly illuminated margins, the text preceded by 5ff. of introduction, in contemporaneous lacquer binding with floral spray within vine-outlined cartouches, doublures with single gold iris within plain borders on black ground, spine replaced Text panel 5 1/8 x 2¾in. (12.7 x 7cm.); folio 8 x 5 3/8in. (20.3 x 14cm.)
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