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GORGEOUS PERSIAN / ARABIC MANUSCRIPT - DOHENY COPY
Vibrant Illuminations, Tree-of-Life Lacquered Binding
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Your browser does not support JavaScript. To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser. Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! AL-JAZULI'. Dala'il al-Khayrat [Poems, Prayers and Blessings in Praise of the Prophet]. [Persia, c. 1800]. The Hoe-Chew-Doheny Arabic manuscript, gorgeously bound and illuminated, and housed in a custom made morocco slipcase by Riviere. Written in black naskh on a pale green background, gold discs between verses, Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq. Eight wonderful double-page illuminations with arabesque design; also a double-page stylized view of Mecca and Medina richly done in gold, blues, red, orange, green, violet and black. Bound in contemporary, wallet-style lacquered boards, with the Tree-of-Life motif on the boards and the doublures in colors and heightened with gold. Minors cracks and chips to binding, leather restored, a few minor stains and minor smudging to interior. Ownership seals are dated 'A.H. 1217' or 1802-03 A.D. 8vo, 197 x 122mm, 134 leaves plus 10 fly-leaves. The three leather book-plates on the last fly-leaf are those of Robert Hoe, Beverly Chew, and Estelle Doheny. The first two were important American bibliophiles and co-founders of the Grolier club. A beautiful manuscript with a distinguished provenance.
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