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MIRZA MUHAMMAD NASIR AL-HOSSEINI KNOWN AS FORSAT AL-DAWLA (D. 1920): KITAB SHATRANJIYA
MIRZA MUHAMMAD NASIR AL-HOSSEINI KNOWN AS FORSAT AL-DAWLA (D. 1920): KITAB SHATRANJIYA
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MIRZA MUHAMMAD NASIR AL-HOSSEINI KNOWN AS FORSAT AL-DAWLA (D. 1920): KITAB SHATRANJIYA

SIGNED KHALIL KNOWN AS PARVIN IBN MARHOUM KARBALA 'ABBAS SHIRAZI, SHIRAZ, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1307/1890-91 AD

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MIRZA MUHAMMAD NASIR AL-HOSSEINI KNOWN AS FORSAT AL-DAWLA (D. 1920): KITAB SHATRANJIYA
SIGNED KHALIL KNOWN AS PARVIN IBN MARHOUM KARBALA 'ABBAS SHIRAZI, SHIRAZ, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1307/1890-91 AD
An illustrated guide to chess, Persian manuscript on light cream paper, 135ff. plus four flyleaves, each with 11ll. of elegant nasta'liq, important words and titles in red, catchwords, paginated in the upper corners, occasional marginal notes, numerous illustrations of chess pieces and board layouts throughout, colophon signed and dated, including a mention of the date AH 1291/1874-75 AD as the original authorship date of the book, in contemporaneous brown morocco, cream paper doublures
Folio 8 ½ x 6 ½in. (22.6 x 16.8cm.)
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The game of chess has always been an important part of Persian culture. It is often mentioned in Persian literature, and frequently used as a metaphor for human discords and the blows of fate by great poets. Although throughout centuries the chessmen have remained generally the same, the rules for their movements have undergone change. This guide also includes illustrated depictions of some of the zoomorphic forms of chess pieces.

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