Lot Essay
The colophon of this manuscript records that it was written for a certain Aga Khudavirdi Beg.
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SIGNED MUHAMMAD IBN MULLAH YUSUF, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1290/1873-74 AD
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SIGNED MUHAMMAD IBN MULLAH YUSUF, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1290/1873-74 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 344ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of naskh with interlinear Persian translation in red nasta’liq, rosette verse markers, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in blue thuluth, marginal hizb, nisf juz', juz' and sajda in red naskh, further marginal notes in red shikasteh, catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 8ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final folio with signed and dated colophon, copious added text and notes to the fly-leaves, in tooled red morocco binding, brown leather doublures
Text panel 9 ¼ x 5in. (23.5 x 12.8cm.); folio 13 ½ x 8 ½ (34.3 x 22cm.)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD IBN MULLAH YUSUF, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1290/1873-74 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 344ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of naskh with interlinear Persian translation in red nasta’liq, rosette verse markers, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in blue thuluth, marginal hizb, nisf juz', juz' and sajda in red naskh, further marginal notes in red shikasteh, catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 8ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final folio with signed and dated colophon, copious added text and notes to the fly-leaves, in tooled red morocco binding, brown leather doublures
Text panel 9 ¼ x 5in. (23.5 x 12.8cm.); folio 13 ½ x 8 ½ (34.3 x 22cm.)
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