SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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ZIJ ULUGH BEG
SAFAVID IRAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The astronomical tables of Ulugh Beg, Persian manuscript on paper, 195ff., text folios with 18ll. of black nasta'liq, important words and phrases picked out in red, the other folios with tables with gold, red and blue headings, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination surrounding text in clouds reserved against similarly illuminated ground, first folio with later owner's inscription and seal, in brown shagreen binding, red morocco doublures
Text panel 7 7/8 x 5 3/8in. (19.9 x 13.6cm.); folio 11½ x 7¾in. (29.2 x 19.7cm.)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript is not dated. However it has an inscription stating that it was purchased in Tabriz in AH 1286/1869-70 AD by Fakhr al-Atibba' (the Pride of Physicians). It also has his seal impression, dated AH 1278/1861-62 AD. On the final page there is a seal impression which gives the name of 'Abu'l Hassan and the date AH 1102/1690-91 AD.

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