AN ILLUMINATED BOOK OF PRAYERS ON COLOURED PAPER
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Iran, dated Muharram 1285AH (1868)

Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper of many different colours, 79ff., plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with up to 8ll., in black ink naskh script, in blue and gold rules, catchwords, plain margins, in modern embossed gold paper binding, inscribed in a different hand Alireza Partou (?) late Muharram 1285AH (1868), the text panel 9cm x 5.5cm, the folio 14cm x 9cm.