Abu 'Abdullah Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Rudaki (d. 941 AD), Ghasayed

ABU 'ABDULLAH JA’FAR IBN MUHAMMAD AL-RUDAKI (D. 941 AD): GHASAYED
SIGNED MUHAMMAD REZA SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED RAMADAN AH 1282/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1866 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on dark cream burnished paper, 32.ff. plus three flyleaves, each with 14ll. of black nasta'liq in two columns, text panels within polychrome rules, margins with red and gold outer rule, catchwords, the opening bifolio with an illuminated headpiece and text in gold clouds, signed and dated colophon, in contemporaneous light brown morocco with painted and gold stamped designs, faded purple paper doublures

Text panel 5 ¼ x 2 7/8in. (13.5 x 7.4cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 5 3/8in. (21 x 13.6cm.)