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Islamic devotional manuscript on paper, Arabic, late 16th or early 17th century, comprising Qur’anic excerpts and supplications, with hand-applied illumination in gold and pigments. Author possibly Umar Beg Shah Walli-Zadah.
Umar Beg Shah Walli-Zadah · zz
- Author
- Umar Beg Shah Walli-Zadah
- Date
- c1600
- Place
- zz
- Publisher
- Umar Beg Shah Walli-Zadah
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 12mo.(3.75" x 6.375) 117 unnumbered leaves (234 pp). Rebacked full brown leather with three (faded) gilt devices centered to both boards. Spine (rebacked using original spine material) with no dicernible label or gilt decoration remaining. Refreshed first free endpapers, pastedowns in red leather(?). Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed through to boards with minor loss to board edges. Boards scuffed, rubbed, with remnants of scotch tape to covers, originally holding covers on, spine similar. Dampstain to fore-edge almost throughout entire text, pages consistently toned, several with small closed tears and/or chipping to page edges mostly towards front and rear of text. Islamic devotional manuscript on paper, Arabic, late 16th or early 17th century, comprising Qur’anic excerpts and supplications, with hand-applied illumination in gold and pigments. Not a full Qur'an, but selected portions and prayers along with devotional works and instruction. Every page a masterpiece of Arab calligraphy and decorative borders, several pages with larger, more colorful borders break upm the text, one colorful two page spread of Mecca. Date arrived at due to Ai input.
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.9375
Islamic devotional manuscript on paper, Arabic, late 16th or early 17th century, comprising Qur’anic excerpts and supplications, with hand-applied illumination in gold and pigments. Author identified as Umar Beg Shah Walli-Zadah. 12mo.(3.75" x 6.375") 117 unnumbered leaves (234 pp). Re-backed full brown leather with three (faded) gilt devices centered to both boards. Spine (re-backed using original spine material) with no discernible label or gilt decoration remaining. Refreshed first free endpapers, pastedowns in red leather. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed through to boards with minor loss to board edges. Boards scuffed, rubbed, with remnants of scotch tape to covers, originally holding covers on, spine similar. Damp-stain to fore-edge almost throughout entire text, pages consistently toned, several with small closed tears and/or chipping to page edges mostly towards front and rear of text, one leaf towards end of text lacking corner affecting border (see pic), not affecting text. Islamic devotional manuscript on paper, Arabic, late 16th or early 17th century, comprising Qur’anic excerpts and supplications, with hand-applied illumination in gold and pigments. Not a full Qur'an, but selected portions and prayers along with devotional works and instruction. Every page a masterpiece of Arab calligraphy and decorative borders, several pages with larger, more colorful borders break up the text, one colorful two page illuminated spread of Mecca.
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