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| Keywords: First page of Nizami's Iqbalnamah.jpg en This folio contains the last lines and colophon of the Sharafnamah The Book of Honor the first section of the fifth book kitab of Nizami's Khamsah entitled Iskandarnamah The Book of Alexander On the folio's verso appears the beginning of the second section of the Iskandarnamah called Iqbalnamah The Book of Progress arranged in an illuminated title page see 1-84-154 1b V The illuminated title page here includes the book's heading written in white ink which reads Kitab Iqbalnamah-yi Shaykh Nizami 'alayhi al-rahmah wa-al-maghfarah The Book of Progress of Nizami mercy and forgiveness upon him The title appears on a blue background decorated with concentric vines of red and yellow flowers All around the title panel and the written surface appear bands of illuminated decoration on either a gold or blue background Written during the last few decades of the 12th century A D the Khamsah consists of five books kitab written in rhyming distichs mathnavi http //hdl loc gov/loc amed/ascs 065 Library of Congress Unknown Calligrapher - Writer Nizami 1550-1600 PD-old-100 Persian books Nezami Colophons from Iran Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection | ||||
