Illustrates in excellent colour plates the delicate paintings and adornments that decorate 103 ancient poetic manuscripts from Tabriz, Herat, Mahshhad, Shiraz and Bukhara.  Each is captioned listing the subject matter, date, style and calligrapher.  A lengthy descriptive text runs throught the volume.  Dual language text - Russian and English.  Hardback.  128 pages.  Slight wear to the dustjacket, otherwise in good clean condition with no inscriptions.  Cat No 4683e