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Goobi
Anthology (Dīvān) of Āṣafī (d. 1517).
This anthology organises the Herat poet Āṣafī's ghazals (odes) in alphabetical order of rhyming (following the last words of each line).
Codex, ink, colour and gold on paper, 120 folios, Persian text in nasta`liq script, borders gold-flecked and marbled, pasteboard bookcovers painted and varnished (added later), Anthology (Dīvān), by Āṣaf ibn Naʿīm al-dīn Niʿmatallah ibn ʿAlā al-dīn ʿAlī Quhestānī, known as Āṣafī (d. 1517, Herat), Iran, colophon (fol. 117r) unsigned, dated Rabi` II 959H, August 1552.
Anthology (Dīvān), by Āṣafī (d. 1517)
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Persian collection
Persian (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex
Approved Place 2018/Middle East/Iran
Codex
Nasta'liq script
1552 (959H)
1552
1552
Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold
Paper (material)
Pigment (material)
Ink (material)
Gold
GOOD
120
187 mm x 122 mm x 32 mm (height x width x depth)
cll
Unknown
Unknown
Iran
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