Lot Essay
This tafsir or Qur’anic exegesis is well-known on account of its Sufi component (Andrew Rippin (ed.),The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an, Oxford, 2006, p.357).
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SIGNED MAHMUD BIN MUHAMMAD, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RAJAB AH 984/SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1576 AD
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HUSAYN WA'IZ AL-KASHIFI (D. AH 909/1504-05 AD): TAFSIR-I HUSAYNI
SIGNED MAHMUD BIN MUHAMMAD, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RAJAB AH 984/SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1576 AD
A commentary on the Qur'an, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 345ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of neat black naskh in panels outlined in gold and polychrome, important words and phrases picked out in red, gold roundel verse markers, catchwords, occasional marginal notes in naskh, nasta'liq or ghubari arranged as cypress trees or other decorative forms, the margins also with occasional gold floral flourishes springing from the text panel, sura headings in white on panels decorated in gold and polychrome, incomplete at beginning, colophon signed and dated, some marginal waterstaining, in maroon morocco with stamped central medallion and pendants, spine repaired, paper covered doublures
Text panel 7 7/8 x 4 ½in. (20.1 x 11.7cm.); folio 13 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (34.5 x 23.4cm.)
SIGNED MAHMUD BIN MUHAMMAD, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RAJAB AH 984/SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1576 AD
A commentary on the Qur'an, Persian manuscript on ivory paper, 345ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of neat black naskh in panels outlined in gold and polychrome, important words and phrases picked out in red, gold roundel verse markers, catchwords, occasional marginal notes in naskh, nasta'liq or ghubari arranged as cypress trees or other decorative forms, the margins also with occasional gold floral flourishes springing from the text panel, sura headings in white on panels decorated in gold and polychrome, incomplete at beginning, colophon signed and dated, some marginal waterstaining, in maroon morocco with stamped central medallion and pendants, spine repaired, paper covered doublures
Text panel 7 7/8 x 4 ½in. (20.1 x 11.7cm.); folio 13 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (34.5 x 23.4cm.)
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On f.1r: A seal impression ghulam-i ghawth 1175, 'The slave of divine succour 1175 (1761-62 AD)'
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