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al-Hiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-Mursalīn (MS M.703).

Accession number
MS M.703
Object title
al-Hiṣn al-ḥaṣīn min kalām Sayyid al-Mursalīn (MS M.703).
Display Date
between 1725-1750.
Created
Kashmir, between 1725-1750.
Binding
Sections of a Kashmiri lacquer-painted binding of ca. 1825 have been incorporated into red morocco covers with some loss of borders; painted doublures.
Description
337 leaves (7 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 236 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Purchased from Erhard Weyhe, Inc., New York, 1926.
Notes
Ms. probably written and illuminated in Kashmir in the second quarter of the eighteenth century.
Written in Arabic with a Persian interlinear translation.
Decoration: Arabic text written on a gold background; important words and textual divisions in red; Persian translation in red and blue; pages ruled in black, orange, green, gold, and light blue; outer rulings in gold and black, separated by a narrow band of gold floral sprays and four-petal rosettes in gold; gold panels on fol. 34-40; 8 double page illuminations in pale blue (fol. 1v-2, 44v-45, 92v-93, 138v-139, 182v-183, 239v-240, 276v-277, and 336v-337); the principal border either has large projecting ornaments centered on the four sides with smaller ogival forms between them, or stylized cloud bands, continuous crenellation, and a running border of broad arabesques; whitish blue background.
Script
naskh
Language
Arabic
Century
Classification