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JAMAL AL-DIN AL-DAWANI (D. 1502 AD): LAWAMI’ AL-ASHRAQ FI MAKARIM AL-AKHLAQ (LUSTRES OF ILLUMINATION ON THE NOBLE VIRTUES)

SIGNED MUHAMMAD YUSUF AL-HUSAYNI AL-ABTAJANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED JUMADA I AH 1092/MAY 1681 AD

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JAMAL AL-DIN AL-DAWANI (D. 1502 AD): LAWAMI’ AL-ASHRAQ FI MAKARIM AL-AKHLAQ (LUSTRES OF ILLUMINATION ON THE NOBLE VIRTUES)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD YUSUF AL-HUSAYNI AL-ABTAJANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED JUMADA I AH 1092/MAY 1681 AD
An important work on ethics, Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with 11ll. Of elegant black nasta’liq script, text within black and gold rules, with finely illuminated gold and polychrome opening headpiece, numerous late 19th century Qadjar illustrations, each double page with illustration with original Safavid illuminated margins with animals in foliage, colophon signed and dated, possibly in original gilt brown morocco binding
Folio 23.5 x 14.5cm.

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This important work on ethics was translated into English in 1839 under the title Akhlaq-e Jalai (Jalalean Ethics). The work is closely modelled on Nasir al-Din Tusi’s Akhlaq-e Nasiri. A Safavid copy of Khaqani’s Qasa’id sold at Christie’s South Kensington, 11 April 2014, lot 314 had similar Qajar illustrations. The present paintings are of interest for the study of the late Qajar school of painting and the taste for revival Timurid and Safavid style in manuscript illustration. On this, see Adel Adamova, Persian Manuscripts, Paintings and Drawings, London, 2012, cat.259-285, pp.384-392.

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