MAHMOUD DEHDAR AYANI, MAFATIH AL-MAGHALIQ (THE KEY TO

MAHMOUD DEHDAR AYANI, MAFATIH AL-MAGHALIQ (THE KEY TO LOCKS), AND THE HALL UR-ROMUZ FI SHARH UL-KONOOZ
Iran, dated 976 AH (1568)

Persian manuscript on paper, in black ink in nasta'liq script, 583ff., plus ten inscribed fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll., on the secrets of letters, numbers, talismans and curses, containing many charts and graphs, chapter headings and highlights in red ink, catchwords, library stamps of Dr Caro Minasian Isfahan 1935 and Afwaz Abi Abdullah Ahmadi, with blue end-papers, in blind-tooled brown calf in brown paper, 29.5cm x 19.5cm.