Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, 15th century, Attributed to Iran, Shiraz, Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper, H. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm), Codices, By the end of the fifteenth century, manuscripts of Persian poetry typically were written in a script known as nasta'liq, an elegant, flowing form of calligraphy. This manuscript is somewhat unusual in its archaizing use of the more rectilinear naskh script
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Khamsa, Quintet, Nizami, 15th century, Attributed, Iran, Shiraz, Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, gold, paper, H, 11 1/2, 29.2 cm, Codices, fifteenth, manuscripts, Persian poetry typically, written, script, nasta'liq, elegant, flowing form, calligraphy, manuscript, somewhat unusual, archaizing, rectilinear naskh
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