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Lot 1057

Quantity of Hornby and Peco 00 gauge Track and Points, Double Straights (15), Straights (28), with power clips (9), Quarter Straights (31), Isolating Straights (4, all Peco), 1st Radius Curves, Full (13), half (11), 2nd Radius (14), half (6), quarter (8), 3rd Radius, Full (4), half (8), Diamond Crossings (5, one Lima), R/H Points (9), L/H (5), large Curved Points all except one Peco L/H (3), R/H (3, one Hornby), Level Crossing, ten yard lengths of flexi track, Gaugemaster Scenic Mat and pack of Underlay and Hornby Buffer Stops (10), uncoupling ramps and Posts, generally G-VG, lightly used (180+)

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Lot 1102

Hornby-Dublo 00 Gauge 3-Rail Buildings Track and Controllers, Through Station and Island Platform both with ramps, large collection of 3-rail Track, Turntable (boxed), R/H Points (6, one boxed, L/H (8, five boxed), Double Straights (33), Straights (14), Half Straights (10), half Isolating track (8), quarter straights (2), uncoupling straight, hand (boxed) and electric, standard curves (22), half curves (13), quarter curves (4) and large radius curves (8), Buffer Stops (4), Power Unit A3 (boxed), Transformer Type 00/1 and Controller with reset button and a home made steel tunnel, F-VG, some track with green scenic paint, boxes F-G (qty, 135+)

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Bishop & Miller Auctioneers Ltd
Lot 30

9 carat gold band, ring size R, 5.1g

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Reeman Dansie
Lot 712

18ct gold wedding ring, size Q½ and an 18ct gold diamond gypsy ring (one stone missing), size RCondition report: Total weight 9.2g

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Bonhams
Lot 229

A small silver inkstandR W Burridge, London 1924Plain rounded rectangular form with two silver-mounted glass ink bottles, length 22cm, weight 9.6oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 236

A pair of Scottish silver café au lait potsR & W Sorley, Glasgow 1937In the 18th century style, the hinged domed lids with fluted scroll thumb-pieces, plain tapering cylindrical bodies, wood side handles, height 22.5cm, weight total 35oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 260

Two matched silver photograph frames,W H Leather, Birmingham 1904 and J & R Griffin, Chester 1906Upright shaped rectangular form, the embossed silver frames surmounted with a large flower, with trailing flowers below, on an oak wood easel back, height 22.5cm. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 465

A collection of 19th century copper Kitchen-warecomprising an oval fish kettle with twin carrying handles, the strap handled cover initialled R, , a cylindrical cooking pot and cover with strap handles, a smaller cylindrical pot and cover of canister form with swing handle, an open cooking pot and a larger mixing bowl, both with with twin carrying handles, a kettle, and two skimmers, the largest cooking pot and cover, 40cm high, the smallest pot, 16cm high, the largest skimmer, 50cm long (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 97

A silver cow creamerR Comyns, London 1962, also stamped Lowe & Sons ChesterOf conventional form with gadfly hinging cover, length 15.5cm, weight 5oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 79

William Shakespeare THE WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE [sic], 6 VOLS London: G. G. & J. Robinson, R. Faulder, B. & J. White et al, 1797 8vo, full leather, marbled ep with bookplate, boards and spine scuffed and scratched, bumped corners, hinges starting, paper loss on spines, light foxing and tanning throughout volumes, boards loosening from spine in all volumes; Vol 3: board inexpertly glued (6)

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Criterion Auctioneers Ltd
Lot 205

A cased set of British Hallmark silver spoons, each with a different town assay Mark, comes with certificate. Makers mark R&B. Weight 79g

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Lot 51

A pair of taxidermy Black Capped Kingfishers in a naturalistic setting. Housed in a wooden hand painted and gilded display case. Hand painted by R Byass H.61 W.30cm

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Wotton Auction Rooms
Lot 1302

9ct rope twist bracelet and a 9ct garnet set ring, size R, 4.7g total (2)

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Lot 1322

18ct claw set diamond solitaire ring, the stone 0.20cts approx, size R/S, 3.1g

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Lot 1324

18ct four stone diamond ring, size R, 2.9g

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Lot 136

William Bowden (British 1840-1920) - Study of a thatched cottage with figure and ducks on a river, watercolour on paper, signed, 10.5 x 15.5cm approx, together with a late 18th century coloured engraving of The Old Passage House at Aust, after I Hassell, published 1797, 26 x 33.5cm approx, a pair of coloured prints after Archibald Thorburn of voles and mice, a set of four coloured prints of shooting subjects after R Havell, a coloured print of a mountainous scene with deer, a scraper board picture of a duck signed MI Chappell, etc, various sizes, all framed (11)

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Lot 240

A late 18th century black and white engraved plan of the city of Gloucester, by R Hall and T Pinnell, published March 30th 1796, 76 x 66.5cm approx sheet size, together with a late 18th century sepia coloured engraving by F Jukes, after a drawing by IM Perrin, showing Sudeley Castle, published 1792 by F Jukes, 52.5 x 66cm approx sheet size, both unframed (2)

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Lot 31

Khusraw Parviz with an assembly of courtiers and servants, by a follower of Haj Mirza Aqa Imami (1880-1955) Iran, 20th Centurygouache and gold on paper, two panels of text in naskhi and nasta'liq script at top and one at bottom, wide border decorated in Safavid style, in a contemporary Chinese-style frame 395 x 270 mm.; with frame 52.5 x 41 cm.Footnotes:The title reads: majles-e khusraw parviz, 'Khusraw Parviz's assembly'.This couplet has not been traced, but it is likely that the scene is one from Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 91

A Khorasan silver and copper-inlaid bronze tray Persia, 13th Centuryof rectangular form with elongated octagonal well, engraved and decorated in silver and copper inlay with a central roundel filled with cable design forming six-pointed stars, flanked by cartouches filled with inscriptions in kufic, the sloping walls with knotted panels alternating with crescents, the rim with inscription-filled cartouches interspersed by crescent roundels 30.2 x 18.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.Christie's, Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 27 April 1993, lot 123Inscriptions: al-'izz wa al-iqbal wa al-salamah wa al-z/iyadah wa al-salamh wa al-'afiyah wa ... / wa al-ta'id wa al-tammah wa al .../wa al-salamah wa al- ... wa al-faraghah wa al-ziyadah wa al-shukrah wa al-.../wa al- ... wa al-ziyadah wa al-sa'adah li-sahibihi, 'Glory and prosperity and well-being and abundance and well-being and health and ... and (God's) support and plentitude and ... and well-being and ... inner calm and abundance and gratitude and ... and abundance and happiness to its owner', bi'l-yumn wa al-birr wa al-salam[ah]/wa al-birr wa al-barakah wa a, 'With good-fortune and piety and well-being and piety and blessing and'.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 111

A Qajar gold damascened steel Helmet and Shield Persia, 19th Centurythe helmet of domed form surmounted by a spike, the front with a noseguard flanked by two plume holders, the shield of circular form with four raised bosses, both profusely engraved and decorated with gold and silver inlay with a band of inscription-filled cartouches around the rims, the domes with a band of rosettes, above and below crescent motifs on a ground of floral interlace the helmet 29 cm. high; the shield 52.5 cm. diam(2)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection, acquired Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art, 4 October 2011, lot 224.Inscriptions: undeciphered repetition of Persian text.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 24A

An attractive small manuscript copy of Maktabi Shirazi's Layla va Majnun, with twelve illustrations Qajar Persia, late 19th Century, ownership inscriptions dated Ramadan 1299/July-August 1882Persian manuscript on blue-green paper, 102 leaves, nine lines to the page written in two columns of small shikasteh in black ink, two further couplets written diagonally in outer panels, inner margins ruled in black and gold, double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, twelve illustrations in gouache and gold, cloth binding 111 x 79 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe estate of a distinguished Iranian academic, California, USA.The illustrations are as follows:1. Layla and Majnun at school (presumably their falling in love and one of their mothers finding out).2. Majnun being taken to the Ka'ba.3. Majnun at the Ka'ba.4. A man with a dagger goes to Majnun.5. A physician goes to see Layla with flowers from Majnun.6. Majnun stopping the fight between his and Layla's tribes.7. Majnun ties his hands with ropes for the hunter to take him instead of the deer.8. The shepherd goes to see Majnun with his flocks.9. Majnun's father goes to see him.10. Majnun in the wilderness.11. Majnun goes to see Layla. 12.The two tribes astonished at finding Layla and Majnun dead.There are two notes, on front and back endpapers, by Ghulam Husain, son of Ihtisham al-Dawlah. One indicates that this copy of Layla and Majnun belonged to his mother and he is giving it to Princess Shams al-Muluk. The note is dated Ramadan 1299/July-August 1882 and bears his seal impression, reading 'Ghulam Husain'.The second note states that this illustrated copy of Layla and Majnun belongs to Ghulam Husain, son of Ihtisham al-Dawlah, and that he is giving it to Princess Shams al-Muluk. It has the same date and seal impression. Ihtisham al-Dawlah must be Sultan Uvays Mirza (d. AH 1310/AD 1892-93), son of Farhad Mirza.Maktabi Shirazi was a Shirazi poet of the late 15th-early 16th Century, who composed his Layla and Majnun in AH 895/AD 1489-90. There is no record of his actual name, and he is recorded only with his pen name Maktabi, because his main profession was school teacher (maktab). He is also recorded as having travelled to Khorasan, India and Arabia and is buried in Shiraz. According to Richard he died circa 1510, and dedicated the work to Amir-Zada Qasim (see F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscrits Persans, Volume II, Le Supplement Persan, Rome 2013, pp. 851-52, no. 647.Rypka comments: 'Nizami found an uncommonly large number of imitators of his poem Layla u Majnun, in Iran and in the areas falling under the influence of Persian culture – in Turkey, Central Asia, India and so on. They imitate his form, choice of material, treatment of analogous and sometimes like subjects, preferably in the same Khamsa form. Amir Khusrau, the first in point of time, occupies a prominent place and he in his turn also influences his successors. Among these, Maktabi of Shiraz approaches his model most nearly in his admirable epic poem Layla u Majnun, which dates from AH 895/AD 1489–90 and is a work that even achieves new effects by means of lyrical ghazal insertions. Tremendous admiration for Nizami is reflected also in the miniatures and in the minor arts in general, where the themes are for the great part taken from the Khamsa.' See J. Rypka, History of Persian Literature, Dordrecht 1968, pp. 98 and 213. For another manuscript of this text, see lot 48 in this sale. A fine version of this text was offered in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2018, lot 144.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 57

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) depicting Christian scenes signed by Ahmad Persia, dated AH 1313/AD 1895-96with rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with three cartouches to the top, all with Madonna and Child, the lower cartouche with date and signature, the sides with further cartouches containing figures in landscapes and other Christian scenes, the bottom and sides of tray with floral interlace 23.5 cm. longFootnotes:Provenance Private UK collection.Inscriptions: fakhr-e anbiya ahmad, Pride of prophets, Ahmad 1313Ahmad is recorded by Karimzadeh Tabrizi as a painter of the late 19th Century. There are three further recorded pieces by him signed as 'Pride of prophets, fakhr-e anbiya ahmad Ahmad', which are dated AH 1314 (AD 1896-7) and AH 1317 (AD 1899-1900), which makes this his earliest recorded work. (M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran , vol. 1, London, 1985, pp. 50-51)For other examples of uses of the the Madonna and Child in Persian lacquer, see: Khalili, Robinson and Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part One, 1996, cats. 475- 82 and Khalili, Robinson and Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, 1997, cats 345, 347-51.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 112

A Qajar lacquer mirror case Persia, 19th Centuryof rectangular form with hinged lid and clasp, decorated in polychrome and gilt with central panels containing floral sprays with a perching bird, the borders with undulating floral vines, the reverse with large floral sprays with a perching bird, the inside of the door with a floral spray and butterflies 30 x 19 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Spanish collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 3A

Muhammad bin Abdu'l-Khaliq bin Ma'ruf, Kanz al-Lughat, an Arabic–Persian dictionary (composed circa AH 870/AD 1465–66), copied by ibn Shaykh Ruhi, Shaykh 'Abdullah Khalkhali Persia, dated Tuesday Muharram 1095/20th [?] December 1683Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, 284 leaves, 27 lines to the page written in clear nasta'liq script in black ink, text arranged in alphabetical order with letters and Arabic words and sentences picked out in red ink, significant sentences underlined in red, catchwords in red and black in wide margins 320 x 215 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe estate of a distinguished Iranian academic, California, USA.The text is divided into 28 books (kitab), and each book into 28 bab. The original text was dedicated to Sultan Muhammad of Gilan (1447–1478). The scribe is unrecorded.Three copies, one of which is dated Muharram 1059, exactly the same date as this copy, are in the British Library, London (see C. Rieu, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. II, photolithographic reprint, 1966, pp. 507–508, Add. 7440, Add.23,571, and Add.23,572). For other copies in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, see F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscrits Persans – Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Tome II, Rome 2013, pp. 592–596, Supplement Persans 438–441.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 56

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) by Ibrahim Persia, late 19th/early 20th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a lady carrying a dervish on her back to the top and further figural scenes to the sides, the base with an interlace of vines, the sides of the inner tray with further scrolling floral vines 22.3 cm. long. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: raqam-e Ibrahim, 'Painted by Ibrahim'.According to Karimzadeh Tabrizi, Ibrahim was born in Isfahan and was a pupil of 'Abbas Shirazi (painter of lot number 67). He worked on lacquer, enamelling and manuscript illustrations and signed in various manners. Some of his recorded works are dated between AH 1325 (AD 1907-8) and AH 1331 (AD. 1912-3). See M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London, 1985, pp. 12-14 and Khalili, Robinson and Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, 1997, cat. nos. 490-4 and p. 264, nos. 490-4 for examples of his different signatures.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 60

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) Persia, 19th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays and perching birds 23 cm. long.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 78

A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales Persia, dated AH 1253/ AD 1837-38of rectangular form with hinged lid, containing two sets of steel balances and brass pans and eight weights of various sizes, the box decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays and perching birds, the border of the lid a series of inscription-filled cartouches 25.1 x 14.6 x 5.2 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: 'After having put together the letter of our sins, they took it and weighed it against [our] deeds', more than anyone, was our sins, but they forgave us for our love of 'Ali'; 'Whoever has the love of Haydar and Safdar (i.e. Imam 'Ali) in his heart, will be risen like justice on the last judgment day. Do not trade except in honesty, If you are honest, you set your affairs in order, dated 1253.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 41

A fine large siyah mashq (calligraphic exercise) in nasta'liq script, signed by Muhammad Isma'il Gulpaygani Persia, at Gulpaygan, dated dhi'l-qa'adah 1092/December 1681-January 1682Persian manuscript on paper, text written diagonally in nasta'liq script in light brown, the colophon written in white also diagonally, in the other direction, all on an olive green ground within cloudbands against an illuminated ground with floral motifs in polychrome, laid down on a later album page with gilt floral borders composition 295 x 173 mm.; album page 335 x 220 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The colophon, artfully written in white, inverted, states that the composition was copied in haste by Isma'il in Gulpaygan in dhi'l-qa'dah 1092. The year is in Persian and the word for thousand is smudged.The scribe is likely to be the same Muhammad Isma'il Gulpaygani, whose only other recorded work is dated Sha'ban 1035/April-May 1626, and about whom nothing else is known. See Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. 3, Tehran 1348 sh., pp. 638-39).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 53

Muhammad bin Murtada, better known as Muhsin, al-Mafatih al-Sharayi'a, on Islamic law, originally composed in AH 1042/AD 1633-34 Qajar Persia, dated AH 1230/AD 1814-15Arabic manuscript on paper, 268 leaves, 22 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with significant words in red, extensive commentaries in outer margins in nasta'liq script, black morocco with stamped central lacquer medallions 298 x 195 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The colophon gives the title as al-Mafatih and states that this original text was composed in AH 1042/AD 1633-34, but that this manuscript was copied in AH 1230/AD 1814-15. The full title of the work appears on folio 2b: Mafatih al-Sharayi'a, on Islamic law (shari'a). The author states that he has arranged the work in twelve books (kitab) with two conclusions (khatimah).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 35

A small illuminated Qur'an Persia, late 18th/early 19th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 275 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in small naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black, gold dots marking verse-endings, inner margins ruled in red and gold, remargined throughout, double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, preceded by the index and opening prayers written within cartouches, sura headings written in naskhi script in red on a gold ground within a panel, seal impressions, later Qajar floral lacquer binding, with slipcase 101 x 70 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 28

An album page of calligraphic practice writing (siyah mashq) in profuse nasta'liq script Persia, 17th-18th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, closely intertwining nasta'liq script written diagonally in black ink within cloudbands on a ground of floral motifs in colours and gold, the composition laid down on an album page with blue floral inner border and wide outer border with scrolling floral motifs in gold on an orange ground composition 211 x 140 mm.; album page 392 x 264 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.See lot 27 for a page from the same album and by the same calligrapher.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 88

A group of Timurid underglaze-painted pottery border tiles Persia, 15th Centuryeach of rectangular form, decorated in black under a turquoise glaze with a scrolling tendril of lotuses and other flowers the largest 15.8 x 5.4 cm.(8)Footnotes:These tiles were produced in Tabriz, a centre which contributed to the formation of the Ottoman tile industry in Bursa and elsewhere. For a further discussion on the topic see N. Atasoy and J. Raby, Iznik, The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, published for Istanbul University, 1989. For a group of similar tiles sold at Sotheby's see Arts of the Islamic World, 18 April 2007, lot 112.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 36

An illuminated Qur'an Qajar Persia, circa 1800-1840Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 313 leaves, 14 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black, gold roundels marking verse-endings, interlinear Persian translation written in small nasta'liq script in red ink, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, illuminated marginal devices, sura headings written in naskhi script in red ink on a gold ground within illuminated panels, extensive marginal commentaries in shikasteh, illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, lacquer binding depicting roses and other flowers, doublures depicting irises on a red ground, in cloth bag 197 x 125 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The dating is based on the seal impression of Muhammad Taqi (dated 1839-40), as found in other manuscripts in this collection. There is no scribe's name or date.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 80

A Qajar pearwood comb and painted box Persia, 19th Centurythe comb carved with an inscription-filled cartouche to each side, the painted box of rectangular form with hinged lid, decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays, mirror to interior of lid the box 14.5 cm. x 8.5 x 2.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: the name of God and the Five Holy Ones, 'God, Muhammad, 'Ali, Fatimah, Hasan, Husayn'.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 97

A Qajar underglaze-painted pottery tile Persia, Circa 1880of circular form, decorated underglaze in polychrome on a white ground with musicians and other figures on a palace terrace, the border with an undulating foliate vine 15.5 cm. diam. Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 63

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) depicting a wedding scene Persia, 19th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a young couple seated before an imam and further figural scenes to the sides, the base with an interlace of vines, the base and sides of the inner tray with scrolling vines 23.1 cm. longFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 65

An unfinished Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) Persia, early 20th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a cartouche containing a battle scene 23.3 cm. long. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 89

A Minai pottery water bottle Persia, 12th/ 13th Centuryof compressed globular form with slim cylindrical neck surmounted by a flaring terminal with flattened shoulder and everted rim, decorated underglaze in cobalt blue and turquoise on a white ground and overglaze in red and black with a series of cartouches formed with palmettes and other vegetal motifs, some filled with pseudo-inscriptions, the shoulder with a series of roundels containing stylised lotus motifs, the shoulder of the neck with pseudo-inscriptions interspersed by roundels 27cmFootnotes:Inscriptions: repeat of al-daw[lah], 'Wealth'.The result of Oxford Thermoluminescence test number N120c48 (5 March 2020) is consistent with the dating of this lot.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 59

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) Persia, 19th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a cartouche containing a reclining nude flanked by portrait medallions, the sides with landscapes flanked by portrait medallions, the base and sides of the inner tray with floral interlace 22.1 cm. longFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 51

A calligraphic composition written in nasta'liq script Persia, 17th Century and laterPersian manuscript on paper, seven lines written diagonally in nasta'liq script in black ink, a further line written vertically, on a gilt-sprinkled ground depicting simurghs amidst foliage, margins ruled in gold, red and blue 300 x 147 mm. (to outer margin rule)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The text and its author have not been identified.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 69

A small Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) Persia, 19th Centurywith curved ends and in two parts, decorated in poychrome and gilt with a branch with perching birds, the sides with vegetal motifs, the base with floral interlace 14.2 cm. longFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 55

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) by Najaf 'Ali Isfahani Persia, dated AH 1265/ AD 1848-9with rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with cartouches containing a Christian saint, architectural and landscape scenes and youths visiting holy men, the sides of the tray and base with vines 23.4 cm. longFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: ya shah-e najaf 1265, 'O King of Najaf! (i.e. Imam 'Ali), 1265 (1848-9)'.This is the signature used by the famous Qajar lacquer painter Najaf 'Ali Isfahani. His recorded works include lacquered pen boxes, mirror cases and book covers depicting various subjects, including European and Indian ones, and are dated between 1227 (AD 1812-13) and 1274 (AD 1857-8). For further information see Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 3, London, 1991, pp. 1368-81 and Khalili, Robinson, Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, 1997, pp. 22-9 and cat. nos. 226, 228, 229, 231, 234, 235, 238, 265, 267 & 273.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 103

A pair of Qajar gold-damascened steel vases Persia, 19th Centuryeach of baluster form with broadly flaring neck and flattened scalloped rims on circular scalloped feet, the bodies profusely engraved and decorated in gold inlay with interlaced foliate tendrils overlaid with palmettes all on a ground of floral interlace 53 cm. high.(2)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Spanish collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 117

King Faridun Qajar Persia, mid-19th Centuryoil on canvas, the King depicted at a balcony within a roundel, identifying inscription in nasta'liq script in white, the roundel edged with stylised foliage, an inner border with stylised floral motifs in dull gold on a blue ground, outside this similar motifs on an orange ground, outer border decorated with naturalistic floral motifs 93.5 x 114 cm.Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 30

Majnun brought to Layla's camp in chains by a beggar woman, after an illustration in Shah Tahmasp's manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, by a follower of Haj Mirza Aqa Imami (1880-1955), Iran, 20th Centurygouache on card, five panels at top containing text in naskhi and nasta'liq script, profusely decorated wide outer border, in a contemporary Chinese-style frame 395 x 273 mm.; with frame 52 x 41 cm.Footnotes:A close copy of the original by Mir Sayyid 'Ali in the British Library (Or. 2265, fol. 157v), from the Khamsa of Nizami produced for Shah Tahmasp.The title heading reads: avardan-e majnun pish-e layla, 'Majnun is brought to Layla'. The couplets are from Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi's Mathnavi (Book 5), which refers to ignorant people saying that Majnun is stupid to be in love with Layla, that there are many more beautiful girls in town.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 8

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of the Risalah Hatamiyyah of Kamal al-Din Husayn Kashefi Sabzavari, depicting a story concerning the famous generosity of the Arab prince Hatam-e Tai Persia, 16th Centurygouache and gold on paper, three lines of text written in nasta'liq script in black ink, with a heading in red ink, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, recto ten lines of text leaf 193 x 135 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceDr Thomas Ewart Marston (1905-1984), curator of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature art at Yale University Library.Minna Marston, his wife, and thence by descent.Dr. Marston was elected trustee of the Yale University Library Association in 1933 and was the curator of Mediaeval and Renaissance literature at the library until his retirement in 1972. He had a BA from Yale and and MA and PhD from Harvard University. He was the author of Britain's Imperial Role in the Red Sea Area: 1800-1878 and co-author of The Vineland Map and the Tartar Relation.The Risalah Hatamiyyah was composed in AH 891/AD 1486-87. It is apparently the only book written entirely about Hatam-e Tai, an Arab prince and a poet of the pre-Islamic era, known for his great generosity.The illustration here relates to this virtue. A man was sent by the King of Yemen to find Hatam, kill him, bring his head to the ruler and so receive an enormous reward. Not knowing Hatam and where he was, he met a young man whom he told of his mission, asked to help him find Hatam, and in return to get part of the reward. The young man - who happens to be Hatam himself - offers his head so that the king gets his wishes and the messenger his big reward. The messenger kisses Hatam, goes to the King of Yemen and tells him of Hatam's generosity. The king of Yemen acknowledges Hatam's generosity as exceeding anyone else's.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 10

A large album of leaves from dispersed manuscripts of the Qur'an, written in eastern kufic, thuluth, muhaqqaq and naskhi scripts, and calligraphic specimen pages Persia, 12th-14th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, laid down on later gold-sprinkled card mounts, 23 pages, comprising (in order): six leaves of calligraphic specimens in thuluth, muhaqqaq and naskhi script; 14 leaves from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in eastern kufic script, Persia, 13th Century, 18 lines to the page; 4 leaves from a manuscript of the Qur'an, Persia, 12th Century, 9 lines to the page; one leaf from a manuscript of the Qur'an, 11 lines to the page, Persia, 12th Century; one leaf from a manuscript of the Qur'an, Persia, 12th Century, five lines to the page album 500 x 335 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 11th April 2000, lot 57.The estate of a distinguished Iranian academic, California, USA.The album consists of:A. Recto: sections excised from different manuscripts in various styles, one copied by Abd al-Baqi al-Mawlawi (unrecorded), and dated AH 1021/AD 1612-13; verso: sections copied from qasidah al-Burdah, with a colophon giving the name of the scribe Haji Maqsud known as Maftul-band (unrecorded), for a certain Nur al-Din Muhammad, in Shiraz, 11th Rajab 980/17th November 1572. B. Sections excised from a book of sayings, one attributed to Imam 'Ali.C. Sections excised from a book of sayings attributed to Imam 'Ali.D. Leaves from a Qur'an in eastern kufic script:1. sura XXXIX, al-Zumar, The Crowds, verse 5 to part of verse 23.2. sura VI, al-An'am, The Cattle, part of verse 24 to part of verse 44.3. sura XXXV, al-Fatir, The Originator of Creation, or al-Malaika, The Angels, part of verse 14 to part of verse 39.4. sura XL, Mu'min, The Believer, part of verse 37 to end of verse 59.5. sura XXXIV, Saba', The City of Saba', part of verse 9 to part of verse 29.6. sura XXXIII, al-Ahzab, The Confederate, part of verse 48 to end of verse 59.7. sura XXXVI, Ya Sin (being abbreviated letters), part of verse 20 to part of verse 56.8. sura V, al-Ma'ida, The Table Spread, part of verse 6 to part of verse 18.9. sura V, al-Ma'ida, The Table Spread, part of verse 36 to part of verse 48.10. sura VI, al-An'am, The Cattle, part of verse 44 to part of verse 63.11. sura XXXVII, al-Saffat, Those Ranged in Ranks, part of verse 77 to end of verse 141.12. sura IV, al-Nisa'a, The Women, part of verse 76 to part of verse 90.13. sura IV, al-Nisa'a, The Women, part of verse 102 to part of verse 120.14. sura XXXIX, al-Zumar, The Crowds, part of verse 23 to part of verse 47.E. Four leaves, Persia, 12th Century:15. sura XL, al-Mu'min, The Believer, part of verse 11 to part of verse 21.16–17. sura XLIII, al-Zukhruf, part of verse 63 to end of verse 89; and sura XLIV, al-Dukhan, Smoke or Mist, heading in gold, verse 1 to part of verse 7.18. sura XL, al-Mu'min, The Believer, part of verse 21 to end of verse 28.F. One leaf, Persia, 12th Century:19. sura LXXX, 'Abasa, He Frowned, verse 4 to the end of verse 42; and sura LXXXI, al-Takwir, The Folding Up, heading in gold, verse 1 to part of verse 7.G. One leaf, Persia, 12th Century:20. sura II, al-Baqara, The Heifer, part of verse 66 to part of verse 70.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 119

A maiden with a parrot, attributed to Muhammad Isma'il Qajar Persia, dated AH 1269/AD 1852-53watercolour on paper, inscribed in nasta'liq script 332 x 193 mm.Footnotes:The inscription reads: farmayesh-e 'alijah Ibrahim bayg tofang-dar va raqam-e kamtarin muhammad isma'il isfahani dar 1269, 'The order of His Exalted Ibrahim Bayg, the gun-bearer, and the work of the most humble, Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani in 1269 (1852-3).'Muhammad Isma'il is one of the most famous Qajar court painters, who received the title naqqash-bashi (Chief Painter) from Nasir al-Din Shah in around 1858 and whose recorded works are dated between AH 1256/AD 1840-41 and AH 1288/AD 1871-72). For his last work, a mirror case depicting Imam 'Ali, see L. Diba (ed.), Royal Persian Paintings: the Qajar Epoch 1785-1925, New York 1998, pp. 257-258, no. 84.For a discussion on his biography and his works, see: N. D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson, T. Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part II, p. 46; and for a piece signed as on the present lot, see p. 68, no. 257. See also Karimzaded Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London 1985, pp. 66-76.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 75

A Zand or Qajar lacquer mirror case depicting the Holy Family possibly by Muhammad Sadiq Persia, 18th/ 19th Centuryof rectangular form with lifting cover, decorated in polychrome and gilt with the Holy Family in a pavilion with angels and attendants to the front and reverse, signature and date to top, the interior of the cover with the Virgin Mary seated with attendants 24.5 x 16.7 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection. Inscriptions: 'Ya sadiq al-wa'd, 'O You who are true to Your promise the year 1182 (1768-9)'.This signature is one of the forms used by the painter Muhammad Sadiq. He was an 18th century painter of lacquer, oil paintings and watercolours who was particularly skilled in depicting figures, flowers, battles and hunting scenes. His works are represented in the St Petersbug album, two oil paintings in the pavilion built by the Zand ruler Karim Khan in Shiraz, and murals in the Forty Column Palace in Isfahan. For more on Muhammad Sadiq and his recorded works see: Khalili, Robinson and Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, vol. One, 1996, pp. 74-5, cats 66-68, 96- 97 and M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London, 1985, pp. 257-64.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 27

An album page of calligraphic practice writing (siyah mashq) in profuse nasta'liq script Persia, 17th-18th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, closely intertwining nasta'liq script written diagonally in black ink within cloudbands on a ground of floral motifs in colours and gold, the composition laid down on an album page with blue floral inner border and wide outer border with scrolling floral motifs in gold on an orange ground composition 204 x 128 mm.; album page 393 x 260 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.See lot 28 for a page from the same album and by the same calligrapher.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 72

A fine Zand lacquer mirror case and tool box by Hasan Khodad Persia, dated AH 1192 (AD 1759-60)of rectangular form with sliding draw opening to reveal a fitted panel of tools, the cover lifting to reveal a mirror, decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays with perching birds to the cover and reverse, the interior of the lid with young lovers being entertained, signature and date to the inside cover, some tools of watered steel, others with ivory and marine ivory handles 30 x 21.5 x 3.3 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: hosn-e kelk-e hasan khodadad ast 1192, 'It is the beauty of the pen of Hasan Khodadad 1192'.Hasan Khodadad was a painter of Zand period with one recorded work, a mirror case with the same text, dated 1173 (1759-60). (See M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London, 1985, pp. 152-3). The tools may have been intended for a jeweller as a larger box in the British Museum is described as being for a goldsmith (see R. Ward, Islamic Metalwork, London, 1993, p. 24, no. 13. However, some other related examples have been described as portable surgeon's kits, though it is likely their uses were more general. For another example sold at Sotheby's see Islamic Art, 16 October 1997, lot 71.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y Ф RY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 32

Two demon musicians on a composite camel, led by a third demon Qajar Persia, signed by Sattar Tabrizi, second half of the 19th Centurypen and ink with use of some gold on paper, signed in nasta'liq script, laid down on an album page with coloured inner margins and outer borders with naturalistic floral motifs in watercolour drawing 139 x 188 mm.; album page 200 x 278 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in a private collection, France.The inscription reads: raqam-e sattar naqqash-e tabrizi, 'Drawn by Sattar, the Tabrizi Painter'.The artist's biography is not recorded. Karimzadeh lists him and gives a reference to this painting, describing him as a painter of the Nasir al-Din Shah period. See Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London 1985, p. 217.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 95

A Safavid cuerda seca pottery Tile Persia, 17th Centuryof square form, decorated in mustard, cobalt-blue, yellow and turquoise with black outline on a white ground with a bird perching on a branch with three flower heads, partial Chinese style cloud motif to right 24.9 cm x 23.5 cmFootnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 118

A nobleman drinking wine at a terrace window, a servant standing by Qajar Persia, in a Zand style, mid-19th Centuryoil on canvas, with arched top 128 x 79.5 cm.Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 48

Maktabi Shirazi, Layla and Majnun, with nine illustrations Persia, in the city of Hamadan, late 19th Century (in the month of Dhi'l-qa'dah)Persian manuscript on paper, some leaves with Qajar embossed stamp depicting the Lion and the Sun, 61 leaves, six lines to the page written in fine shikasteh in three columns in couplets, nine paintings, seal impressions of former owners, brown calf gilt 215 x 138 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The subjects of the illustrations are:Majnun taken by his father to visit the Ka'ba.Ibn Salam sees Layla and falls in love with her.Ibn Salam and Layla together.Majnun visiting Layla in her tent, with a shepherd and flock including a human-headed sheep in foreground.Majnun in the wilderness surrounded by animals.Majnun visited by his father in the wilderness[?]Majnun lamenting at Layla's grave in the wilderness.Layla's coffin surrounded by her family.The graves of Majnun and Layla visited by a youth.Maktabi Shirazi was a Shirazi poet of the late 15th-early 16th Century, who composed his Layla and Majnun in AH 895/AD 1489-90. There is no record of his actual name, and he is recorded only with his pen name Maktabi, because his main profession was school teacher (maktab). He is also recorded as having travelled to Khorasan, India and Arabia and is buried in Shiraz. According to Richard he died circa 1510, and dedicated the work to Amir-Zada Qasim (see F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscrits Persans, Volume II, Le Supplement Persan, Rome 2013, pp. 851-52, no. 647.Rypka comments: 'Nizami found an uncommonly large number of imitators of his poem Layla u Majnun, in Iran and in the areas falling under the influence of Persian culture – in Turkey, Central Asia, India and so on. They imitate his form, choice of material, treatment of analogous and sometimes like subjects, preferably in the same Khamsa form. Amir Khusrau, the first in point of time, occupies a prominent place and he in his turn also influences his successors. Among these, Maktabi of Shiraz approaches his model most nearly in his admirable epic poem Layla u Majnun, which dates from AH 895/AD 1489–90 and is a work that even achieves new effects by means of lyrical ghazal insertions. Tremendous admiration for Nizami is reflected also in the miniatures and in the minor arts in general, where the themes are for the great part taken from the Khamsa.' See J. Rypka, History of Persian Literature, Dordrecht 1968, pp. 98 and 213. A fine version of this text was offered in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2018, lot 144.The manuscript bears the seal impression of Muhammad Taqi.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 62

A Qajar lacquer penbox (qalamdan) depicting young dervishes, possibly by Sani' al-Mulk Persia, 19th Centurywith rounded ends and sliding tray, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a central cartouche to the top depicting young dervishes with a teacher, the sides with floral sprays with perching birds and portrait medallions, the base and sides of the inner tray with interlaces of vines and bunches of grapes 23.6 cm. longFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Inscriptions: ' ... Sani' al-Mu[l]k (or al-Mul[k]) AH 1282 (AD 1865-6)'.Abu'l-Hasan Khan Ghaffari, Sani' al-Mulk (also known as Abu'l-Hasan ii) went to Italy circa AH 1262 (AD 1845-6) studying and copying the works of Italian masters in various museums in Rome, Florence and Venice. On his return, he completed the murals in the Nizamiyyah Hall for Aqa Khan Nuri I'timad al-Saltanah in 1273 (1856-7). He was put in charge of the publication of Government official Periodicals, in which he painted portraits of figures and events of the time and was titled Sani' al-Mulk on 10 Dhi'l-qa'adah 1277 (20 May 1861). He opened the School of Painting in Tehran in AH 1278 (AD 1862-3). His works include portraits of Muhammad Shah, Nasir al-Din Shah, nobles and officials, but he is best known for his illustrations of the One Thousand and One Nights, now in the Gulistan Palace Library in Tehran. His recorded works are dated between AH 1258 (AD 1842-3) and AH 1276 (AD 1859-60). The exact date of his death is not recorded, but given as sometime in AH 1283 (AD 1866-7), which would make this pen box his latest recorded work.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 45

Sa'di, Kulliyat, poetry, copied by 'Abd al-Karim al-Tabataba'i Qajar Persia, begun in AH 1267/AD 1850-51, completed on Rabi' II 1268/January-February 1852Persian manuscript on paper, 268 leaves, 24 lines to the page written in fine nasta'liq script in black, horizontally in a central column, 17 lines written diagonally in left and right columns, headings and significant words in red ink, intercolumnar rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, illuminated double-page frontispiece, six further double-page section openings in colours and gold, lacquer binding in the style of Razi, with central medallions, doublures with stylised gilt floral motifs on a red ground 255 x 160 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.'Abd al-Karim al-Tabataba'i is recorded as a little-known calligrapher of the 19th Century, with only two works by him known, one in the Gulistan Palace Library in Tehran, dated AH 1269/AD 1852-53, and another (in the Tehran market) made for Mirza Taqi Khan Amir-e Kabir and dated AH 1265/AD 1848-49. (See Mehdi Bayani, ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. 2, Tehran 1346 sh., pp. 412-13).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 74

A Qajar lacquer mirror case depicting the dervish Nur 'Ali Persia, 19th Centuryof rectangular form with lifting cover, decorated in polychrome and gilt with the dervish in a landscape to the front, the inside cover and reverse with a young couple, calligraphic exercise in naskhi script to the interior 22.6 x 14.2 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 37

A fine prayer book, beginning with du'a' al-'alawi (The 'Alawi Prayer), and ending with dua' sayfi (The Sayfi Prayer), commissioned by, or in the library of Ihtisham al-Dawlah, governor and military commander Qajar Persia, circa AH 1253/AD 1837-38Arabic and Persian manuscript on cream and sky blue paper, 98 leaves, 7 lines to the page written in fine, bold naskhi script in black ink within cloudbands, interlinear undulating gold floral motifs, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, occasional headings written in naskhi script in red on a gold ground within illuminated panels, double-page illuminated frontispiece with outer margins profusely decorated with scrolling floral motifs in colours and gold, one further similar double page of illumination, fine contemporary lacquer binding with Arabic text in thuluth script within central medallions and border cartouches, written by Muhammad Husain al-Sharif, dated AH 1253/AD 1837-38, doublures of red leather gilt, buff leather slipcase with embossed ownership impressions 220 x 143 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.The texts on the lacquer binding, in thuluth script, are quotations from the Prophet and the Imams on the protective value of prayers, written by Muhammad Husain al-Sharif (unidentified) and dated AH 1253/AD 1837-38. The binding must be contemporary, and almost certainly made for, this manuscript, since it fits perfectly, and this can therefore imply the date of the manuscript.The manuscript was in the possession of Ihtisham al-Dawlah and may have been produced for him. There is a note on the opening page written by him stating that the manuscript contains prayers and that it entered his library in AH 1271/AD 1854. He signs with his name Khanlar Khan, but adds his oval seal impression with his title Ihtisham al-Dawlah. The same seal impression is at the end of the text. His embossed seal, reading Ihitisham al-Dawlah within a cartouche is on the slipcase. Khanlar Mirza was the 17th son of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltanah. He held numerous posts during his life, including Governor of Yazd, Kirman, Hamadan, Mazandaran, Borujerd, Luristan and Khuzistan and Gulpaygan. He was titled Ihtisham al-Dawlah in AH 1268/AD 1851-52. He was in charge of the army in Khuzistan when the British took over Muhammarah port in AH 1273/AD 1857, which he lost to them. After that he held the governorship of Isfahan and died in AH 1278/AD 1861-62). (See M. Bamdad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran 1700-1900, vol. 1, Tehran 1966, pp. 473-476).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 46

Abu'l-Majd Majdud bin Adam Sana'i Ghaznavi, better known as Sana'i, Muntakhab-i Hadiqa, an abridged version of the Hadiqa al-haqiqa by Sana'i, copied by Mirza Husayn al-Musawi, presented to Sayf al-Sultan by Mir Ma'sum 'Ali al-Musawi Persia, dated 14th Safar 1221/3rd May 1806Persian manuscript on paper, 52 leaves, 10 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink in two columns, headings written in red ink, intercolumnar rules and inner margins ruled in black and gold, opening double-page illumination with headpiece and text within cloudbands on a gold ground, margins profusely decorated with stylised floral motifs, two seal impressions of the owner dated AH 1255/AD 1839-40, later lacquer binding, not belonging, with covers with stylised vines and bunches of grapes, border of stylised floral motifs 173 x 108 mm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection.Ma'sum 'Ali al-Musawi was a poet (d. 1833), who seems to have produced other similar texts, including a collection of poems (jung-e ash'ar) in the University Library of Tehran (no. 3587), presented to Na'ib al-Saltanhah and dated Rabi' II 1233/February-March 1818. Neither Sayf al-Sultan nor the scribe Mirza Husayn al-Husayni have been identified.The text is an anthology of 1001 bayt of Sana'i's Hadiqa al-haqiqa. For copies of the Hadiqa in the British Library, London, Bodleian, Oxford, and in Berlin, see C. Rieu, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1977, pp. 146–147, no. 215. Another abridged copy entitled Intikhab-i Hadiqa or Muntakhab-i Hadiqa, and with the same opening and concluding verses as this copy, is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. See F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscrits Persans, Tome II: Le Supplement Persan, Rome 2013, p. 908, SP 704.There are two seal impressions of the owner of the manuscript, Muhammad Taqi, dated AH 1255/AD 1839-40.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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