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SIGNED AMIR MUHAMMAD BIN HAJJI MIRZA MUHAMMAD AL-MARAGHI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1111/1699-1700 AD

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SIGNED AMIR MUHAMMAD BIN HAJJI MIRZA MUHAMMAD AL-MARAGHI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1111/1699-1700 AD
Arabic manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 337ff. plus 6 fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script on gold ground within blue-ruled cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, marginal markers in gold thuluth script, catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated margins and headpieces and text in clouds on gold ground, followed by prayers, with marbled paper doublures, in light brown morocco binding
Text panel 7¾ x 4¼in. (19.5 x 10.8cm.); folio 10¾ x 7in. (27 x 17.5cm.)

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