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1800 MANUSCRIPT BOOK antique Bahar-i Danish Spring of Knowledge in FARSI

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Title: 1800 MANUSCRIPT BOOK antique Bahar-i Danish Spring of Knowledge in FARSI

Description: The Bahar-i Danish ('Spring of Knowledge')
Copied by Abdallah in 1800
Nastaliq script
333 pp
Original binding with embossed seals
Size 5 1/2 by 9 1/4
Nice calligraphy
Very good conditionThe Bahar-i Danish ('Spring of Knowledge') was a Persian collection of romantic tales adapted from earlier Indian sources by Inayat Allah Kamboh in Delhi in 1651.
No early illustrated copy of the manuscript has survived, though a pair of 18th-century illustrated manuscripts, from the collections of the Duke of Northumberland and that of Richard Johnson, may reflect 17th-century illustrative traditions.

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1800 MANUSCRIPT BOOK antique Bahar-i Danish Spring of Knowledge in FARSI

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