ARABIC LITERATURE. PERSAN. ARABIC CHARACTERS. POETRY. - Lot 284

ARABIC LITERATURE. PERSAN. ARABIC CHARACTERS. POETRY. Important lot of 8 works including old manuscripts. - Poems by Sa'adi, India, Kashmir, probably 17th - 18th century MANUSCRIPT on paper of eleven lines per page in Persian, in black ink, several oblique lines in the margins. Polychrome illuminated frontispiece decorated with interlocking lambrequins and floral scrolls. Bound in black morocco with embossed decoration of a poly-lobed medallion and two flowery appendices decorated with floral scrolls. 23.2 x 14.3 cm (Accidents, stains, foxing, worn binding). - 19th-century Indian manuscript on paper entitled Koshtan Belasen (Killing Belasen), twelve lines of Persian nasta'liq, beginning with an illuminated frontispiece, alternating stories and verses and mentioning Emperor Jahangir Ghazi at the beginning. Bound in a double painted frame. 19.4 x 11.8 cm; wear and wormholes. - JAMI. Collection of poetry by Jami (d. 1492), North India, 19th century. Persian manuscript of 323 leaves, on colored paper, two-column text in black nasta'liq of 13 lines, in its original varnished red morocco binding with stamped decoration. Size: 24.8 x 14 cm (binding). - PERSAN. Iskandarnama, signed Muhammad Yusuf b. Muhammad Sharif, Northwest India, probably dated 1304 H/1886. Persian manuscript, text in black nasta'liq of 17 lines, change of hand, titles and words rubricated in red, Indian binding in stamped and varnished green morocco, possibly the Iskandarnama of Nizami's Khamsa (d. 1209). Size: 30.5 x 25 cm (binding). - Mashahir al-'uthmani, Imprimerie Amire, Üsküdar, 1313 H/1895, 4 volumes - Kulliyyat-i tarikh-i (Manual of Ottoman History), Istanbul, 1327 H/1908, in Ottoman, 3rd volume. - Geography of Azerbaijan, Awqaf Printing House, Istanbul, 1338-40 H/1919-21 - Safina talibi ya kitab ahmad, Imprimerie Akhter, Istanbul, 1312 H/1894, 2nd vol. of an encyclopedic journal, Persian