A COLLECTION OF SAYINGS OF IMAM 'ALI: KITAB NATHR AL-LA'ALI MIN KALAM MAWLANA AMIR AL-MU'MININ 'ALI BIN ABI TALIB

A COLLECTION OF SAYINGS OF IMAM 'ALI: KITAB NATHR AL-LA'ALI MIN KALAM MAWLANA AMIR AL-MU'MININ 'ALI BIN ABI TALIB
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN AL-MASHHADI COPYING A MANUSCRIPT BY AHMAD AL-NAYRIZI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED RAJAB AH 1283/NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1866 AD
A collection of sayings of Imam 'Ali, the first section arranged alphabetically, Arabic manuscript on paper, 24ff., each folio with 10ll. of elegant black naskh script, with polychrome rosette verse markers, titles in red thuluth script, text within polychrome and gold rules, last few folios with text written diagonally, opening folio with finely illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in stamped and tooled reddish brown morocco binding
Text panel 6 x 3 ½in. (15 x 9cm.); folio 9 ¼ x 5 ¾in. (23.4 x 14.7cm.)