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TIMURID IRAN, DATED THURSDAY 28 RABI' II AH 882/9 AUGUST 1477 AD
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ABU HAMID MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-GHAZALI (D.1111 AD): KIMIYAT AL-SA'DA
TIMURID IRAN, DATED THURSDAY 28 RABI' II AH 882/9 AUGUST 1477 AD
The celebrated treatise on the Muslim faith and Sufi life, Persian manuscript on paper, 635ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of small black cursive script verging on nasta'liq, titles and important words in red, text within black and gold rules, with catchwords, two fine original headpieces in gold and polychrome, occasional marginal comments, colophon to vol.III dated, incomplete at beginning and end, headings to vol.I and vol.II now lacking, in red morocco binding
Text panel 6 ¼ x 3 1/8in. (15.6 x 8cm.); folio 8 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (22.2 x 12.1cm.)
TIMURID IRAN, DATED THURSDAY 28 RABI' II AH 882/9 AUGUST 1477 AD
The celebrated treatise on the Muslim faith and Sufi life, Persian manuscript on paper, 635ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of small black cursive script verging on nasta'liq, titles and important words in red, text within black and gold rules, with catchwords, two fine original headpieces in gold and polychrome, occasional marginal comments, colophon to vol.III dated, incomplete at beginning and end, headings to vol.I and vol.II now lacking, in red morocco binding
Text panel 6 ¼ x 3 1/8in. (15.6 x 8cm.); folio 8 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (22.2 x 12.1cm.)
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The Library of the Late Djafar Ghazi
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