Lot Essay
An added note on the last folios says: E. Bernay 'Je prie Monsieur Champfleury d'accepter ce petit manuscrit en souvenir de son tout devoue serviteur'.
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QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
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MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): GULISTAN
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 113ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black elongated nasta'liq script, important words in red, some phrases overlined in red, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and text within cloud bands on gold ground, in original fine lacquer binding, the covers with gul-o bulbul, the doublures with two teaching scenes with figures of two mullahs identified as Sayyid 'Abd al-Rasul and Khatib Aqa Jani
Text panel 6 1/8 x 3 3/8in. (15.5 x 8.7cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 5 3/8in. (21 x 13.8cm.)
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 113ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black elongated nasta'liq script, important words in red, some phrases overlined in red, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and text within cloud bands on gold ground, in original fine lacquer binding, the covers with gul-o bulbul, the doublures with two teaching scenes with figures of two mullahs identified as Sayyid 'Abd al-Rasul and Khatib Aqa Jani
Text panel 6 1/8 x 3 3/8in. (15.5 x 8.7cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 5 3/8in. (21 x 13.8cm.)
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