ROWDAT Al-ATHKAR BY HAJJI MUHAMMAD BEN MUHAMMAD TABRIZI, IRAN, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, calligraphed in beautiful naskh and nastaliq black on seventeen lines per page, divided into several chapters including 'Maqam, Fazal and motalab' in Persian and Arabic, including Koranic extracts, recommended prayers and wise advice from the Imamite tradition. (Twelver Shiism). The manuscript opens with a beautiful double frontispiece richly illuminated, the subdivision titles are in white ink on a gold cartouche. Carrying in the last folio a dedication in chekasta for Gholam Haydari, probably the sponsor or a possessor of the book. Binding without flap in red morocco. 24.5 by 14 cm.