Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami (d.1492), Salaman u Absal of Maulana, copied by Mahmud Katib, Persia, dated 10 Jumada II 960 AH/5 May 1553 AD
1553
Persian manuscript on paper, 43ff., written in black nasta’liq within two columns, important sentences in red, ruled in red, blue, gold and black, f.1b with a gold and polychrome heading, the margins of each page with a gold and polychrome decoration consisting of gold and blue cartouches against a ground filled with interlacing scrolls, in a leather stamped binding with a central ogival cartouche with stamped red birds against a gilt ground, with flap, folio 23 x 15cm.