Layout: 11 lines Decoration: Verso of first leaf with 6x7 cm miniature in gold, blues, reds, purples, and greens Decoration: headlines (mainly prayers) in red and within a double-ruled gilt frame. Binding: Eighteenth-century black morocco with floral inlays to front and rear boards, gilt borders, rebacked. Extensive marginal annotations, some in Persian, on page 2, 3, 247, 264-266, and 272. Fine paper with gold leaf floral decorations. Provenance: Purchased on the Mary L. Hurt Richmond Fund. Shia jurisprudence book, or fiqh. The author is likely from Khorasan in modern-day Iran, as there is a long discussion on the second page about returning to Khorasan after Haj. In Arabic, with annotations in Persian; recto of first leaf in Persian, possibly in a later hand.
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