Nasr al-Din Abu Sa'id Abdullah bin Sa'id Abi Qasim 'Umar bin Fakhr al-Din Abi Hasan 'Ali al-Baidawi, Nizam al-Tawarikh, a biographical work beginning with Adam and continuing down to Sultan Suleyman (AH 939/AD 1532-33), Ottoman Turkey, 16th/17th Century

Persian and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on coloured paper, 34 leaves, text written in prose and verse, approximately 13 lines to the page written horizontally in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, and approximately 24 lines written diagonally in outer margins of each page, names of Prophets, kings, and Sultans picked out in red or gold, intercolumnar and interlinear rules in red, inner margins ruled in thick gold, red and blue, illuminated cornerpieces incorporating intertwining stylised serrated leaves, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, some worming and tears, some staining, brown morocco gilt, rebacked, doublures of marbled paper
205 x 140 mm.