Safavid School, 17th Century, Muhammad Baqir Ibn Hajji Muhmmad...
RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA' ('EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY')
Arabic manuscript on paper, 536ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 21ll. fine black naskh, divisions and subheadings in red ink, diagrams, various astrological charts and a drawing of the Nile river, all outlined in red, gold and polychrome rules, each risala with a gold and polychrome illuminated heading with white thuluth reserved against a gold cartouche and a colophon, the margins plain, catchwords, opening with a later fihrist, a shamsa with dense calligraphy, the following bifolio with t
10 7鈦�8 x 6 录in. (27.5 x 15.9cm.)
14 5鈦�8 x 9 1/8in. (37.2 x 23.1cm.)
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