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Lot 23

Pir Muhammad ibn Piri Ahmad bin Khalil, Kitab Anis al-'Arifin, on poetry
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 995/AD 1586-87

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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Pir Muhammad ibn Piri Ahmad bin Khalil, Kitab Anis al-'Arifin, on poetry
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 995/AD 1586-87

Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish on paper, 167 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 21 lines to the page, written in ince and taliq script in black ink in one and two columns, inner margins ruled in gold and black, titles or important words in red, illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, light brown gilt binding with stamped central medallion, with flap, one cover detached
240 x 145 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.

Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 250-251, no. 65.

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