Tarikh-é Moazam-é Moajam - History of pre-Islamic Iran
Dated 1262 (=1847)
Persian manuscript on fine paper, 146ff. calligraphy in nasta'liq in red and black ink on fifteen lines per page. The manuscript opens with an illuminated frontispiece with wide illuminated margins with arabesque decoration on the double page.
Colophon signed and dated and marginal notes of owner.
Bound in the European style.
29x6x17.8 cm
Colophon:
Completed copying on Friday the 4th of the month of Shawal of 1263 hegira /1847
Sharf-e Qazvini, Tarikh-e Mu'jam (A History of Persia from Kayumarth to Anushirvan), Persia, dated 1263 AH / 1847 AD
Provenance:
European private collection.
Present from G. Romanovsky to Sir Coleridge Kennard (1885-1948), British diplomat and aristocrat, on January 10, 1913 in Tehran.
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