Details
Prayer scroll, Arabic manuscript on paper, with horizontal and diagonal lines of fine black naskh, with gold clouds between the lines, phrases in red, gold margins between black, red and green rules, marginal notes in red, gold and polychrome illuminated heading at start, two further similar illuminated panels, Persia, signed by Iskander b. Mirza Muhammad ... al-Saliani(?) and dated AH 1241/1825-6 AD, with leather cover at end - 3½in. (8.7cm.) wide