Beschreibung:

ink, gouache and gold on paper, 6 leaves, 3 lines per page written in large and small nasta‘liq script, headings written in blue thuluth, narrow inner borders and wide outer borders decorated with gold foliate motifs on blue, cream and buff paper, opening heading within an illuminated panel, contemporary Safavid binding of gilt-stamped leather with cloud-scrolls and foliate tendrils, doublures of red leather with medallions and corner pieces of gilt filigree over blue ground and border cartouches of black filigree over blue grounds, opening doublure with label “INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PERSIAN ART LONDON 1931 MK 15”text panel: 6.9 by 11.2cm.leaf: 19 by 29.1cm.