Muhammad Ghaffari, Nigaristan (a History of Islam), in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Mughal India, mid-eighteenth century]

Muhammad Ghaffari, Nigaristan (a History of Islam), in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Mughal India, mid-eighteenth century]

single volume, 357 pages (plus two endleaves), catchwords, single column, 15 lines in fluid black nasta'liq, some important words and phrases in red, illuminated head-piece opening the text decorated with floral sprays and patterns in blue, gold and red, leaves ruled in gold and blue, a few leaves repaired at margins, ink and ownership inscriptions and seals to endpapers, 265 by 135mm.; contemporary painted lacquered boards with floral sprays and motifs, rebacked and edges repaired in later morocco, upper cover a little worn

Provenance: from the Mohamed Makiya collection, their 55/200.

Text: This work is a comprehensive history of Islam dating from the Prophet Muhammad through to the completion of the text in the sixteenth century AD.

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