Illuminated Manuscript,Collection of poems (divan), An illuminated page with a headpiece, frame and cloud-bands between lines, opening the section on ghazals, Penned by the illustrious 16th century-Safavid calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī, this copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE) was probably illustrated in the 11th century AH / 17th CE. It opens with a double-page miniature acting as a frontispiece, and is followed by an elegant double-page decorated frontispiece

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