BAHA AL-DIN AL-‘AMILI, A COLLECTION OF WORKS, INDIA, DECCAN, GOLCONDA, DATED 1026 AH/1616-17 AD TO 1056 AH/1646-47 AD

BAHA AL-DIN AL-‘AMILI, A COLLECTION OF WORKS, INDIA, DECCAN, GOLCONDA, DATED 1026 AH/1616-17 AD TO 1056 AH/1646-47 AD

Arabic and Persian manuscript on cream and light blue paper, 612 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, approx. 32 lines to the page written in black naskh and nasta’liq in different hands, titles and important words in red, numerous illuminated headpieces and cartouches to indicate the beginning of a new section, f.1a with a polychrome and gold shamsa against a gold foliate ground, in dark red leather gilt-stamped binding, decorated with an almond-shaped medallion

text panel: 21.8 by 12.6cm.
leaf: 31.2 by 20.8cm.

Condition Report:
The margins have been cropped but are overall clean, with commentaries, stains and smudges, some restoration to the paper, some illumination incomplete, as viewed.

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Provenance:
Ex-private collection, USA.