Binding from Three Collections of Poetry

1295 AH/AD 1878

19 cm 28 cm

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This non-original, red leather binding from Walters manuscript W.657 has a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces (with no flap). The binding has gold-painted arabesque decoration. It was re-bound and restored by a bookbinder of Tabriz, Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabri...

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Mundir [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with motton on fol. 280b]; Khwand Mulla Mahdi Sahhaf-i Tabrizi, Tabriz, 1295 AH/AD 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown] [note regarding re-binding and restoration of this volume by the bookbinder on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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