RASA`IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA` (`EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY`)

Lot 48
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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£ 277 200
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 48 | RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA' ('EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY')
Valeur estimée
£ 130 000 – 150 000
RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA' ('EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY')
SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD BAQIR IBN HAJJI MUHMMAD AL-HAFIZ, PROBABLY MASHHAD, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED AH 1041-42 / 1631-33 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 536ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 21ll. fine black naskh, divisions and subheadings in red ink, diagrams, various astrological charts and a drawing of the Nile river, all outlined in red, gold and polychrome rules, each risala with a gold and polychrome illuminated heading with white thuluth reserved against a gold cartouche and a colophon, the margins plain, catchwords, opening with a later fihrist, a shamsa with dense calligraphy signed and dated, the following bifolio with the text reserved against gold clouds with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and illuminated margins, in contemporaneous gilt-stamped Safavid binding with flap, the doublures with découpé medallion and spandrels
Text panel 10 7/8 x 6 ¼in. (27.5 x 15.9cm.); folio 14 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (37.2 x 23.1cm.)




Provenance

Library of Abu al-Fath Manuchihr Khan (d.1636), Safavid Governor of Khorassan
Faridun Jah, Mansur 'Ali Khan Bahadur (1830-84), Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (1838-1880)
With Richard Kelton (d.2019), California, by repute before 1990,
From whose estate acquired by the present owner
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