THE VERSED MUNAJAT OF 'ALI BIN ABI TALIB

COPIED BY 'ABD AL-WAHHAB AL-HUSAYNI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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THE VERSED MUNAJAT OF 'ALI BIN ABI TALIB
COPIED BY 'ABD AL-WAHHAB AL-HUSAYNI, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Persian manuscript on gold sprinkled blue paper, 5ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 6ll. of elegant black nasta'liq, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, text panels laid down between contemporaneous gold and polychrome rules on later brown paper margins with blue outer rules, opening folio with gold and polychrome floral illuminated headpiece, colophon signed, later owner's notes on the opening folio, in black morocco with gold stamped medallions and outer rule, red paper doublures
Text panel 6 3/8 x 3in. (16.1 x 8.2cm.); folio 10 x 6 3/8in. (26.1 x 15.9cm.)

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'Abd al-Wahhab al-Husayni is recorded as a Husayni Sayyid of Mashhad and a grandson and pupil of Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi. None of his recorded works, which are all calligraphic folios, are dated. Qadi Ahmad met him in Mashhad when 'Abd al-Wahhab was 80 years old (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Vol. II, Tehran, 1346 sh., pp. 421-22 and V. Minorsky (translated), A Treatise by Qadi Ahmad son of Mir Munhsi, Calligraphers and Painters, 1959, Washington, p. 138).

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