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SOME ILLUMINATED PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE SA'IDIYA LIBRARY, HYDERABAD-ON.
For our short survey and photographs we have selected four of the most beauti• ful Persian manuscripts of the rfith century which are mature examples of the style prevalent in the time of Akbar the Great and which demons• trate a fine artistic unity of bookbinding, calligraphy and illustration.
1 The Sa'idiya Library preserves a leather-bound copy, inlaid with gold medallions, and embellished with gold Unwans, written in fine nasta'liq by lbn-i-Husain Sharif-al-Husain-al-Mashhadi, 986 A.
X 6" and it consists of r ao coloured illuminated leaves with gold-sprinkled borders.
This copy may be said to be the most valuable work in the library.
The text is rendered in exquisite calligraphy and illustrated by paintings in the ripe Persian style, and the copy is bound with all the craftsmanship that had been developed in preceding centuries.
the sky we notice clouds and birds in the Chinese manner-indications of a decorative style which also occurs on the gold-sprinkled borders of the manuscript leaves.
the three· full page illustr~tion~ ·in· harmonious wat~r colours one depicts Sultan Mahmud prostratmg himself before Ayaz, his 1;' ·The·style described; among other works quoted supra.
al-Husain al-Ansari, known as Haji Zain-al• Ansari, Zain-ud-Din 'Ali, who traced his pedigree to "Abd Allah Ansari, was born in A.
Copies of the work in calligraphy, but without 'illustration's, among other;~ described 'in Rieu op.