Persian Illuminated Manuscript

Persia. Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. A single leaf of text written in black nasta'liq in four columns of couplets, with three illuminated rubric panels on burnished gold grounds inscribed in white and black nasta'liq with chapter headings from the Isfandiyar cycle, including 'The reply of Gushtasp to Isfandiyar' and 'The reply of Isfandiyar to Gushtasp'. A text leaf with illuminated headings only; there is no miniature.