Book of blessings. - Lot 155

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Book of blessings. - Lot 155
Book of blessings. Iran, 19th century. Arabic manuscript on paper, text in naskh script of twenty lines per page in black and red ink with line spacing in framing fillets, divided by month. Some marginal annotations. Frontispiece decorated with an illuminated sarlow of gilded palmettes on a polychrome background. Colophon giving the date of the copy as the month of rajab, but the date is faded out. Stamp on first page dated 1315H /1897-98. Painted and lacquered paper maché binding, decorated in the style of Abu Tâleb, with a wide border of poly-lobed medallions with pendants on a marbled background, surrounding calligraphic cartouches containing the Throne verse (ayat-al-kursi) around a central black rectangle, bearing the date 1173H ? (1760). Size: 22.5 x 13.5 cm LS the first page is restored and glued to paper. The last page is damaged and torn. Wear, wetness and stains Provenance: Gros-Delettrez sale, Orientalism-Africanism, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 14, 2004, lot 324. The binding is decorated in the style of Abu Tâleb, dating from the 1860s-70s, and the frontispiece of this manuscript was illuminated in the 19th century.
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