A manuscript

Description:

Probably Ottoman, 18th/19th c.
23 x 13,5 cm
Red leather binding, embossed and decorated in gold and black with an arabesque floral cartouche. Frontispiece decorated in polychrome gouache painting and gold, text in black ink, text borders in gold.
From the collection of the art dealer and collector Saeed Motamed (1925-2013), collected from the 1950s until 2005, largely documented in inscriptions from 1998 through drawings and Persian descriptions. This book was returned to Saeed Motamed by the Berlin State Library in 2011, where it had been stored since 2004 and could not be acquired due to insufficient funds. - Few stains, traces of use