'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492), FATIHAT AL-SHABAB, (‘THE FIRST DIVAN’), PERSIA, SHIRAZ, SAFAVID, DATED 948 AH/1541 AD
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'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI (D.1492), FATIHAT AL-SHABAB, (‘THE FIRST DIVAN’), PERSIA, SHIRAZ, SAFAVID, DATED 948 AH/1541 AD
Persian manuscript on polished paper, 320 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page written horizontally in neat nasta'liq script in black ink, catchwords, ruled in colours and gold, double page illuminated frontispiece decorated in blue and gold with polychrome flowers, f.66b with an illuminated headpiece of interlacing vines and cloud bands, with six miniatures, gilt-stamped morocco binding with worn filigree doublures
24.7 by 15.5cm.
Ex-collection Edmond Cormier-Thierry-Delanoue (1879-1960).
The present manuscript of Jami contains a preface in prose and verse, ghazals and quatrains. The texts in the double-illuminated pages are couplets and the ghazals bear references or allusions to certain events or episodes, illustrated as follows:
F.61a: a teacher teaching a group of students.
F.127b: a group of men and musicians enjoying themselves in a lush landscape.
F.172b: Farhad gives Shirin a jar of milk at Bistun.
The couplet above the image:
‘The image of Shirin will disappear from the rock, but it is impossible
That the vision of her face will leave Farhad’s memory’.
F.199b: a polo match.
F.243a: a hunting scene.
F.277b: a preacher addressing a group of men.
On the panel above the door:
‘The just Sultan’