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QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 285ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh in text panels within gold and red rules, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in red on gold ground cartouche flanked by polychrome floral illumination, gold and polychrome juz', hizb and nisf marginal medallions, opening bifolio with text on white cloud reserved against gold ground, gold and polychrome illuminated borders, the final bifolio with the text similarly decorated and surrounded by gold and polychrome illumination, in contemporaneous floral polychrome lacquer binding, the dark green lacquer doublures decorated with gold floral sprays, spine split, in later cloth case
Text panel 7½ x 4½in. (19.3 x 11.2cm.); folio 9½ x 6 1/8in. (24.1 x 15.7cm.)
QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 285ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh in text panels within gold and red rules, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in red on gold ground cartouche flanked by polychrome floral illumination, gold and polychrome juz', hizb and nisf marginal medallions, opening bifolio with text on white cloud reserved against gold ground, gold and polychrome illuminated borders, the final bifolio with the text similarly decorated and surrounded by gold and polychrome illumination, in contemporaneous floral polychrome lacquer binding, the dark green lacquer doublures decorated with gold floral sprays, spine split, in later cloth case
Text panel 7½ x 4½in. (19.3 x 11.2cm.); folio 9½ x 6 1/8in. (24.1 x 15.7cm.)
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Please note that this lot is incorrectly illustrated in the catalogue. The correct image is that labelled 123. It is correct online.
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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse