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Lot 47•,R
Badr al-Din Abu Nasr Farahi (d. 1242), Lama'at al-Badr, a verse commentary on the al-Jami' al-Saghir, in concertina form Qajar Persia, 19th Century
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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Badr al-Din Abu Nasr Farahi (d. 1242), Lama'at al-Badr, a verse commentary on the al-Jami' al-Saghir, in concertina form
Qajar Persia, 19th Century
Qajar Persia, 19th Century
Persian manuscript on paper, 21 leaves, 40 album pages of text recto and verso, text written in nasta'liq script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, 11-12 lines to the page, titles in red, inner margins ruled in colours, laid down on card album pages of several different colours, illuminated opening headpiece in colours and gold, light brown leather with stamped gilt central medallions
275 x 180 mm.
275 x 180 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.
Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 228-229, no. 58.
Little is known of the life of Badr al-Din Abu Nasr Farahi, who is mainly known for his Nesab al-sebyan, a versified Arabic-Persian vocabulary composed in different metres and which was intended to help children studying Arabic. Our text, the Lama'at al-badr, was completed in AD 1220, and is a verse commentary on the al-Jami' al-saghir, a treatise on jurisprudence written by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani (d. AD 805).
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