An Islamic folio of thirteen book pages containing miniature paintings, probably Persian, 19th Century, opaque watercolour on paper, the paintings from a didactic or religious story and depicting figures at religious gatherings, in an Imperial court, performing rituals and hunting , surrounded by four columns of script, some pages with further gilt foliate illumination upon dark ground and with script to verso, pages including script 36cm high x 17.5cm wide, the paintings themselves being of various size, largest 19.5cm high x 13cm wide

Overall staining, particularly at borders, slight wrinkling mainly at borders, some water/ tea flicks on some pages, slight burning (?) to some page edges, losses, nibbles and tears with repairs particularly at edges/ borders