Lot 40
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HUSAYN BIN MU'IN AL-DIN AL-MAIBUDHI QADI MIR (D. 1504 AD): SHARH DIWAN 'ALI BIN ABU TALIB
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HUSAYN BIN MU'IN AL-DIN AL-MAIBUDHI QADI MIR (D. 1504 AD): SHARH DIWAN 'ALI BIN ABU TALIB

SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD BIN 'IZZ AL-DIN BIN KAYU KNOWN AS MU'IN AL-DIN A-LARI, COPIED IN MECCA, 13 DHU AL-QA'DA AH 985/21 JANUARY 1578 AD

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HUSAYN BIN MU'IN AL-DIN AL-MAIBUDHI QADI MIR (D. 1504 AD): SHARH DIWAN 'ALI BIN ABU TALIB
SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD BIN 'IZZ AL-DIN BIN KAYU KNOWN AS MU'IN AL-DIN A-LARI, COPIED IN MECCA, 13 DHU AL-QA'DA AH 985/21 JANUARY 1578 AD
An early copy of this Persian commentary on the Arabic Diwan of 'Ali bin Abu Talib, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 331ff. plus two fly-leaves, each with 19ll. black naskh script, words and phrases in red, gold margins within black rules, blue outer rule, occasional sections of text within gold rules, occasional marginal notes, opening folio with finely illuminated gold and polychrome heading panel, signed and dated colophon on final folio, in possibly original Safavid red morocco binding with stamped medallion, pendants and spandrels, similar doublures
Text 6 x 3 ½in (15 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 ¾ x 5 ½in. (22.3 x 13.5cm.)
Provenance
The Hagop Kevorkian Collection (1438); acquired Sotheby's, 18 April 1983, lot 93
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Lot Essay

Qadi Mir was a philosopher from Maybudh, near Yazd. He wrote works both in Persian and Arabic. The present work is not recorded in Al-A'lam under the entry to Qadi Mir (Al-Zerekly, Al-A'lam, Biographical Dictionary, Beirut, 2007, vol. II, p.260_

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