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A PRAYERBOOK COPIED BY AHMAD AL-NAYRIZI FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF MUZAFFAR AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR

PRAYER BOOK

COPIED BY AHMAD AL-NAYRIZI, AH 1130/1717-1718 AD

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PRAYER BOOK
Copied by Ahmad al-Nayrizi, AH 1130/1717-1718 AD
Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 79ff. with 9ll. of black naskh within gold rules, red Persian interlinear translation, text outlined with gold, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated heading, other titles in gold, final folio with colophon signed Ahmad al-Nayrizi and dated 1130, some staining, in original gold lacquer binding with overall vine design surrounded by calligraphic border signed Ahmad al-Nayrizi and dated 1132, slightly split at spine
Folio 9¼ x 5¾in. (23.2 x 14.5cm.)

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拍品專文

A note on the last flyleaf in the hand of Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar records the fact that the prayer book was given to him by Aqa Darvish the son of the deceased Mu'ayyid al-Dawla on 10 Dhul Hijja 1319 20 March 1902. This was Naw Ruz and the feast of adha and the Shah presented it to Atabek A'zam (Amin al-Sultan).