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SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA`ADI (D.1292): KULLIYAT

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Lot 60 | SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'ADI (D.1292): KULLIYAT
SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'ADI (D.1292): KULLIYAT

DEDICATED TO NASIR AL-DIN SHAH, SIGNED 'ABD AL-HUSAYN AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1275/1858-59 AD

Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled burnished paper, 292ff., plus three flyleaves, each folio with 18ll. of black nasta'liq in two columns with double gold intercolumnar rules, titles in red nasta'liq, some within gold and polychrome illuminated panels, surrounded by black nasta'liq written on the diagonal, within gold and polychrome rules, catchwords, five fully illuminated bifolios, the illuminated closing bifolio with a dedication to Nasir al-Din Shah in gold thuluth, colophon signed and dated, lacquer binding with floral decoration, the doublures lacquered with gold floral scrolls on red ground

Text panel 6 x 3 1/4in. (15.2 x 8.2cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 4 7/8in. (20 x 12.2cm.)





Provenance

Mahmud Jam (1960), Prime Minister under Reza Shah from 1935-39

Sotheby's, London, 24 April 2013, lot 25



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Historical era:Qajar dynasty
Place of origin:Iran, Asia
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