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MIR 'IMAD AL-HASANI (ATTR. TO): RISALA ADAB AL-MASHQ
COPIED BY MAHMUD BIN MIRZA NASRULLLAH MUSTAWFI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1275/1858-9 AD
A treatise on calligraphy, Persian manuscript on gold speckled cream paper, 24ff. plus 1 fly-leaf, each with 7ll. of black nasta'liq, laid down between polychrome rules on cream paper with gold outer rules, catchwords, important words and phrases picked out in gold or pink, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, and first and last two folios with text in clouds reserved against gold and margins with gold floral illumination, colophon signed Mahmoud b. Mirza Nasrallah and dated AH 1275, minor areas of localised staining, red morocco binding with gold floral decoration
Text panel 5 7/8 x 3in. (14.8 x 7.4cm.); folio 8¾ x 5 3/8in. (22.3 x 13.8cm.)