Lot 186
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HUSAYN WA'IZ KASHIFI (CA. AH 867-939/1463-1532 AD): KITAB RAWDAT AL-SHUHADA
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HUSAYN WA'IZ KASHIFI (CA. AH 867-939/1463-1532 AD): KITAB RAWDAT AL-SHUHADA

SIGNED JA'FAR FATH'ULLAH BIN MUHAMMAD AL-SAMARQANDI, COPIED IN THE SULTANIYAH MADRASA, MECCA, DATED 27 RAMADAN AH 932/7 JULY 1526 AD

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HUSAYN WA'IZ KASHIFI (CA. AH 867-939/1463-1532 AD): KITAB RAWDAT AL-SHUHADA
SIGNED JA'FAR FATH'ULLAH BIN MUHAMMAD AL-SAMARQANDI, COPIED IN THE SULTANIYAH MADRASA, MECCA, DATED 27 RAMADAN AH 932/7 JULY 1526 AD
The Meadow of Martyrs, Arabic manuscript on paper, 348ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of black nasta'liq within text panels outlined in gold and black, catchwords, with six paintings in opaque pigments added in the late 19th or 20th century, opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa, following folio with a headpiece surmounting 8ll. of text, colophon signed and dated, the first and last folios with owners' notes and seals, light water and spot staining, first and final folios with later owner's marks and stamps, in brown morocco with flap decorated with elegant stamped medallions, pendants and spandrels, the doublures with découpé medallion and pendants within gilt borders, minor damages
Text panel 5½ x ½in. (13.9 x 6.4cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (21.9 x 12.5cm.)
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The seal impressions include one of an 'Ali Akbar, dated AH 1020/1611-12 AD and a Qajar seal with the name 'Ali. There is also an inspection seal of the Gulestan Palace Library dated AH 1309/1891-92 AD.
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This fine manuscript, produced under the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520-66), follows in the tradition of imperial Ottoman manuscript production of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Both the binding and the illumination at the beginning of the manuscript bear close resemblance to those of a Qur’an copied by Shaykh Hamdullah and dated 14 Safar AH 905/14 September 1499 AD (Julian Raby and Zeren Tanindi, Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century, London 1993, no.41, pp.208-13).

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