MUNIF PASHA (d. 1910 AD): TAZKIREH-YE SOFARA (TREATISE ON TURKISH AMBASSADORS AT THE COURT OF FATH ‘ALI SHAH), SIGNED MUHAMMAD TAHIR, TEHRAN, QAJAR IRAN, DATED SAFAR AH 1291/ MARCH-APRIL 1874 AD

MUNIF PASHA (d. 1910 AD): TAZKIREH-YE SOFARA (TREATISE ON TURKISH AMBASSADORS AT THE COURT OF FATH ‘ALI SHAH)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD TAHIR, TEHRAN, QAJAR IRAN, DATED SAFAR AH 1291/ MARCH-APRIL 1874 AD
Ottoman Turkish manuscript on cream burnished paper, 9ff. plus two flyleaves, 11ll. of elegant black nasta'liq to the page, within gold and black rules, catchwords, illuminated opening headpiece, chapter headings in red nasta’liq within gold and polychrome cartouches, one fully illustrated folio, colophon signed and dated, in 19th century purple velvet binding with printed marbled paper doublures
Text panel 8 ¾ x 5 3/8in. (22.2 x 13.6cm.); folio 11 ¾ x 7 ¾in. (29.9 x 19.4cm.)

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