Divân by Khâju Bidel-e Dehlavi (d.1720), India dated 1104AH/1693AD, with...

Divân by Khâju Bidel-e Dehlavi (d.1720), India dated 1104AH/1693AD, with later illustrations, copied by Muhammad Sharif ebn-é Mullâ Kanjabeh Bây beghnâii. Persian Manuscript on paper, 178ff., with 12ll. of black nasta'liq written in two columns, a band of flowers separate the column and cartouches containing birds mark the end and beginning of each poem, written in black nasta'liq, opening illuminated frontispiece the colophon dated jumadi al-thani 1104AH in the words of Mirza Bidel in the town of Tuman in the province of Siaktri near the mausoleum of Hazrat-e Sadrarata, in the guest house of Mullah 'Abd al-Sayyar, with later marginal annotations and decorations of human figures in the Mughal style, in brown morocco binding with tooled and gilded medallions, folio 27.5 x 16cm.