IRAN, late 19th-20th century
Album (muraqqa') consisting of 32 accordion-style cardboard pages, with colored margins meeting in pairs. 18 facing pages are decorated with miniatures, drawings, gouache and gilding, surrounded by calligraphic cartouches. Some of the drawings bear the apocryphal signatures of Reza 'Abbasi and Shafi 'Abbasi. 14 pages are decorated with calligraphy in shekaste nasta'liq script set against a background of gilded clouds, in double frames. The texts are munajat (versified prayers). Bound in brown leather with gilt and red embossed mandorla decoration and spandrels.
(Worn.)
Binding size: 30.3 x 20 cm; Pages: 29.5 x 19.5 cm; Thickness: 4.5 cm
Expert : Laure SOUSTIEL - laure@soustiel.com
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