Early Nineteenth-Century Persian Medical Manuscript WITH RECIPES FOR HERBAL REMEDIES

by Medicine: Manuscript, Persian

$12,500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

1833. Contemporary morocco. Two parts, octavo 24.2 by 14.3 cm . 280 unnumbered leaves. Manuscript on polished cream paper. Persian text recto and verso in black and red ink; triple-ruled inner text borders 15.4 by 7.9 cm in red and blue, single-ruled outer border 21.7 by 11.3 cm in blue. The second part of the manuscript opens with an illuminated full-page double suite composition Arab. unwan in polychrome and gilt; marginal illumination appears on two other leaves in this section.

• Binding: Leather

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