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PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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SHARAF AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN SA'ID AL-DALASI AL-BUSIRI (D. 1295 AD): AL-KAWAKIB AL-DURRIYA FI MADH KHAYR AL-BURRIYA - QASIDAT AL-BURDA
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
An interesting copy of the Poem of the Mantle, a renowned religious poem, Arabic manuscript on paper, 24ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script verging on nasta'liq, some words in red, folios with text arranged in panels, written horizontally or diagonally, some words and phrases picked out in red, with cartouches decorated with polychrome floral sprays, text within black, blue and yellow rules, later pagination at top, catchwords, opening folio with polychrome illuminated headpiece, rebound in 19th century green morocco covered binding with gilt decoration, corrosion of the pigments, old repairs throughout
Text panel 5 ¾ x 3 1/8in. (14.7 x 7.9cm.); folio 7 x 4 ¼in. (17.7 x 10.7cm.)
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
An interesting copy of the Poem of the Mantle, a renowned religious poem, Arabic manuscript on paper, 24ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script verging on nasta'liq, some words in red, folios with text arranged in panels, written horizontally or diagonally, some words and phrases picked out in red, with cartouches decorated with polychrome floral sprays, text within black, blue and yellow rules, later pagination at top, catchwords, opening folio with polychrome illuminated headpiece, rebound in 19th century green morocco covered binding with gilt decoration, corrosion of the pigments, old repairs throughout
Text panel 5 ¾ x 3 1/8in. (14.7 x 7.9cm.); folio 7 x 4 ¼in. (17.7 x 10.7cm.)
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