Unknown - Epic Poetry - Diwan - 1760

An ancient illuminated manuscript leaf from a divan dated c.1760, containing an elaborate header, whose central cartouche would normally hold a chapter heading or the poem's name but is now largely effaced. The verses are set on the diagonal (chalipa), written. in elegant nasta'liq script, a hallmark of Persian lyric poetry, especially ghazals, where couplets are arranged in slanting lines across two columns rather than horizontally.

The content is almost certainly ghazal verse built around themes of love, longing, the beloved's beauty, wine as a symbol of divine or earthly intoxication and the fleeting nature of worldly life.

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