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Source Description
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 Tabrizi (see note, signed and dated 1295 AH/AD 1878 on front flyleaf iia).
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Document identity
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83322
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Binding from Three Collections of Poetry
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Source metadata
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83322
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title
Binding from Three Collections of Poetry
description
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 Tabrizi (see note, signed and dated 1295 AH/AD 1878 on front flyleaf iia).
provenance
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.
date
1295 AH/AD 1878
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CC0
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en
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bindings
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cm
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28
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19
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 cm)
Source extras
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Islamic; Persian
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red leather with gold
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19242
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MIS
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none
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