3794127 Khamza by Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad Nizami (AH 535-598/1140-1202 AD), 1651 (pigment & gold on paper) by Persian School, (17th century); 36x21 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Signed Ibn Husayn Murad \'Ali Damavandi, Safavid Iran, dated Thrusday the beginning of Rabi\' I AH 1061 / February 1651 AD. Persian manuscript on buff paper, 303ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of neat black nasta\'liq arranged in four gold-outlined columns, titles in red, with twenty-eight contemporaneous miniatures in opaque pigments heightened with gold, f.1b with illuminated headpiece composed of polychrome flowers and interlaced split-palmettes, with gold strapwork borders, 5 further illuminated headpieces, final folio with colophon signed and dated, some flaking of paint and light staining, in brown morocco with lacquered central lobed cartouche. ); Photo byChristie\'s Images.