Sold for:
$2,460
$2,460
Persian Manuscript with Twenty-eight Miniatures. Tall narrow format manuscript in Persian on paper, approximately 250 leaves, miniatures done in bright colors, with gold accents, exhibiting Indian/Hindu themes, palette consists of warm colors, featuring stylized figures created using large blocks of flat color, with penwork tracery details added on top; text written in fifteen lines per page, within a triple-rule border in blue and red ink, diacritical marks in red throughout, in 19th century half leather, spine lacking, front board detached, worn, contents somewhat toned, old leather tabs marking chapter heads mostly flaked away, 9 3/4 x 5 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
