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Manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Manuscript of Khwaja ‘Abd Allah Ansari’s Advise

Persian

The album has six folios in the folding or accordion format. The text is copied in large nasta`liq by the scribe Ghulam Riza for his son, Farid al-Din Muhammad Taqi al-Jayli in H. 1294 (1877). The light brown leather binding is covered with a decorated paper on the interior.

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling

Qajar period

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