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SIGNED 'ABD AL-WAHID, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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IMAM AL-NAWAWI (D. 1278 AD): THE FORTY HADITH (OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD)
SIGNED 'ABD AL-WAHID, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper with Persian translation, 8ff. plus 2 modern fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black nasta'liq script within black-ruled gold cartouches divided by panels of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, the text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with finely illuminated heading, in later red binding
Text panel 4¾ x 2¼in. (12.2 x 5.8cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 5¼in. (21.7 x 13.2cm.)
SIGNED 'ABD AL-WAHID, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper with Persian translation, 8ff. plus 2 modern fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black nasta'liq script within black-ruled gold cartouches divided by panels of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, the text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with finely illuminated heading, in later red binding
Text panel 4¾ x 2¼in. (12.2 x 5.8cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 5¼in. (21.7 x 13.2cm.)