拍品 91
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A LAPIS LAZULI-HILTED AND GOLD-DAMASCENED WATERED-STEEL DAGGER (KARD)
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NASIR AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-HASAN AL-TUSI (D. AH 672/1274 AD): JAWAHIR-NAMA

SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1055/1645-55 AD

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NASIR AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-HASAN AL-TUSI (D. AH 672/1274 AD): JAWAHIR-NAMA
SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1055/1645-55 AD
On precious stones, gems, minerals, and metals, Persian manuscript on paper, 69ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 20ll. of black nasta’liq, marginal notes in black shikasteh, copious added text and notes to the fly-leaves, very light staining, in brown morocco binding
9 3/8 x 4 5/8in. (23.7 x 12cm)
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This text by Nasir al-Din Tusi is referred to by different scholars respectively as the Jawahirnama, Kitab al-Jawahir, Risala al-Jawahir or Nama Ilkhani. It focuses on the different properties of gemstones and minerals and was written on the order of Hulugu Khan (circa 1218-1265). For more information see Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation 9th-19th C, Istanbul, 2003, pp.211-219, no.606, Mi1.

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