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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU AL-QASIM 'ABDULLAH BIN 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-TAHIR AL-QASHANI: JAWAHIR AL- 'ARA'IS WA ATAYIB AL-'NAFA'IS
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU AL-QASIM 'ABDULLAH BIN 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-TAHIR AL-QASHANI: JAWAHIR AL- 'ARA'IS WA ATAYIB AL-'NAFA'IS
JAMAL AL-DIN ABU AL-QASIM 'ABDULLAH BIN 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-TAHIR AL-QASHANI: JAWAHIR AL- 'ARA'IS WA ATAYIB AL-'NAFA'IS
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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU AL-QASIM 'ABDULLAH BIN 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-TAHIR AL-QASHANI: JAWAHIR AL- 'ARA'IS WA ATAYIB AL-'NAFA'IS

SIGNED HASSAN BIN MUHAMMAD GARSHASP, WESTERN PERSIA, 15TH CENTURY

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JAMAL AL-DIN ABU AL-QASIM 'ABDULLAH BIN 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AL-TAHIR AL-QASHANI: JAWAHIR AL- 'ARA'IS WA ATAYIB AL-'NAFA'IS
SIGNED HASSAN BIN MUHAMMAD GARSHASP, WESTERN PERSIA, 15TH CENTURY
A treatise on jewels, metals and perfumes, Persian manuscript on paper, 56ff., with 33ll. of small black nasta'liq, headings and significant words picked out in red, catchwords, colophon signed, later owner's notes and seal impressions on f.1r., textblock trimmed, small areas of water stain throughout, in dark brown blind stamped morocco with flap, cream paper doublures with inscriptions
Folio 7 ¼ x 3 ¼in, (18.3 x 8.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 18 October 2016, lot 4
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Lot Essay

Our manuscript is the second earliest known copy of this text. Only three other known copies of this work have been published thus far. These include two in the Aya Sufia Sulaymaniyya Library, Istanbul, dated AH 700/AD 1300 (AS 3614), and AH 991/AD 1583-84 (AD 3613). The third copy is in the British Library, London (Or. 9605) dated Rajab 913/June-July 1585.

An inscription on the last page states: 'The author of this book Jawahir al-'arayis wa atayib al-nafayis, Abu'l-Qasim 'Abdallah bin 'Ali bin Muhammad bin Abi Tahir al-Muwarrikh al-Qashani, wrote this book and it is said that this was copied from a copy in author's hand that was copied in Tabriz the place [damaged word] he died on the first day of Muharram the year 700/16th September 1300'.

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