RAS Persian 248A (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

The number is given in the handwritten note on the Library copy of Codrington. March 2009. Under conservation. To be completed. Two of the five long poems in the Khamsah of Nizami. Multiple ruled margins. Headings in gold outlined in black on panels decorated with split palmette scrolls in gold and black spotted with blue. Richly illuminated initial opening of text. Illuminated panel above beginning of Laili Majnun (f34b). Illuminated border to miniature on f1b. Six coloured miniatures, in the 'Brownish' Shiraz style of the later fifteenth century. See B.W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society, pp. 24-6.

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