A SAFINA ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY OF SA’DI, BABA TAHIR ORYAN, AMIR HOSSEIN, SALMAN, AND OTHERS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Iran, early 19th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 100ff. plus one fly leaf, each folio with 10ll. in diagonal pairs of black ink shikasteh nasta’liq script in two horizontal columns, in black and gold rules, with the names of poets in very fine red ink, dated Muharram 123(0?) (December 1814), in soft calf binding set with Kashmiri jamuvar shawl cloth woven in polychrome wools on a red ground, the text panel 11.5cm x 5.3cm, the folio 14cm x 7cm.