Fifteen Original Oriental Manuscripts. 12th-18th centuries

by Otto F. Ege

$12,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original black cloth portfolio with cloth ties. Number 21 of only 40 sets of this celebrated portfolio of Oriental i.e. non-Western manuscript leaves, of which 8 are Arabic. Contains 15 manuscript leaves from the 12th century Cairo to the 18th century Russia and Tibet . Languages represented include Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopic, Tibetan, Greek, and Slavic Otto Frederick Ege 1888-1951 was the Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, a lecturer

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