* A POETIC ANTHOLOGY  PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION   Iran, 17th century Comprising a selection of poems by three different poets with Nouri, Mirza Hadi and Nazimi as takhallos (nom de plume), Persian manuscript on paper, 114ff., each folio with 14ll. of black nasta'liq script, text panel within blue, red, and gold rules, illuminated chapter headings, the opening page to the section of Mirza Hadi with a full-length trony painted in the style of Reza 'Abbasi and late Safavid Isfahan school, a young dandy wearing a fur-lined jacket en pelisse, stamped H. Kevorkian collection 700, bound in blind-tooled olive calf, the text panel 13.6cm x 9.8cm and the folio 17.5cm x 9.8cm. This lot is accompanied by correspondence from George Anavian on behalf of the recently-deceased professor Ehsan Yarshater to Dr. Marilyn Jenkins Madina of the Metropolitan Museum of Art regarding the manuscript, dated 27 September 1983. * Please note that this lot is subject to import VAT at a preferential rate of 5% on the Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on the Buyer's Premium.