A QAJAR ILLUMINATED PRAYER BOOK
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Iran, 19th century
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 37ff., plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll., in black, gold, blue and red elegant naskh, with finely illuminated pagination and marginal markings, catchwords, in red, gold, and blue rules, and black and gold outer rules, in gilt tooled calf binding, stamped with ‘Ya 'Ali Madad’, a cry for help from Ali, twice on each side straddling a lobed central cartouche, the text panel 12cm x 7cm, the folio 20cm x 13cm.
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