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Beautifully scripted in a very clean and elegant nastaliq, this folio is from a damaged copy of a reproduction of Nezami Ganjavi’s epic poetic work the Khamsa (خمسه, 'Quintet or Quinary') or Panj Ganj (پنج گنج, 'Five Treasures'): Makhzan-ol-Asrâr (مخزن‌الاسرار, 'The Treasury or Storehouse of Mysteries'), 1163 (some date it 1176).  

Khamsa (Quintet) is Nizami's most famous masterpiece, and, as suggested by the name, it contains a collection of five poems and c. 30,000 couplets. The five poems in the order in which they were composed are as follows: Makhzan al-Asrar (The Treasure House of Mysteries);  Khosrow and Shirin; Layla and Majnun; Haft Peykar (Seven Beauties); and Eskandarnameh (also given as Iskandarnamah, The Book of Alexander). The intriguing storyline and the beautiful language of each poem (in particular Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun, and Haft Peykar) have provided Persian miniature painting with rich context and have turned Khamsa into one most frequently illustrated works of Persian literature along with Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. 

Mostly script, the folio also contains the owners stamp top left.  The script is divided by gold columns, but also contains one elaborate gold chapter heading cutting across the two central columns of script demonstrating the fine hand of the scribe. The are a few small wormholes to the folio, which is not unusual given the age and adds to the provenance. 

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Nezami - Khamseh Manuscript - 1533

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