Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 237 ff., each folio with 14 lines of elegant black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns with double black-ruled gold vertical divisions, some text in blue, red and gold script within an illuminated ground arranged within cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, the opening bifolio with very fine gold and polychrome illumination framing two panels of text, each with 6 lines of white nasta'liq script outlined in black on gold ground, manuscript with two finely illuminated headpieces, catchwords, colophon dated, in restored Safavid gilt and stamped brown morocco binding, the doublures with découpé decoration, folio 25.4 by 15.2 cm.

Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 April 1984, lot 90, The Saeed Motamed Collection, Christie's, 7 October 2013, lot 92

Abd al-Rahman Jami (d.1492) was a prolific Persian scholar writing in a number of disciplines but mostly remembered as a poet. His most noted epic was the Haft Awrang comprising seven poems of which the largest is the Silsilat al-Dhahab (The Chain of Gold).