Najm Al-Din Razi (D.1256): Mirsad Al-'Abad Min Al-Mabda Ila'l-Ma'ad

Persian and Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 146ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. fine black nasta'liq , titles and prayers in polychrome naskh , text laid down between gold and polychrome rules, an extension on f.78, final folio with colophon with signature and date and stating that it was copied “at the head of the tomb of Shaykh Abu ‘Abdullah Khafif”, areas of poetry divided into two columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, the margins with footnotes by the scribe, otherwise plain, catchwords, numerated, the opening folio with exceptional illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece with a bismillah in white kufic , signed, numerous Mughal library notes and stamps on the fly-leaves including the seal of Shah Jahan, in stamped brown morocco binding

Utropspris:SEK 792,675.12

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