SHAHNAMEH - Shāhnāmeh

by Abu'l-Qasim Ferdawsi of Tus, Illuminated -- Manuscript

$27,500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

likely early 19th century; prior to 1876 . Leather - Hardcover. A significant and very large manuscript comprising the second half of the Shahnameh: 332 leaves. Size: 19.2 x 29.4 cm; written surface: 13.5 x 22.7 cm . Written in four columns, on beige paper, in nasta`līq script in black ink, with all headings in red ink on decorative gold ground. All pages are ruled in gold, red, and blue. All the dividing columns are in either gold decorated red or gold decorated blue. There are two

• Binding: Hardcover

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