Description:
Ali ibn Hosein Ansari [aka Haji Zaynol Attar] (1303-1404) Ekhtiyarate Badi i, Badi al-Jamal. Folio format manuscript on paper in Persian, including treatises on plants, weights, and the treatment of migraine and other headaches; text in single column, red and black ink, numerous marginal annotations, approximately 400 pages, bound in contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin boards, red sheepskin pastedowns, rebacked, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Estimate $800-1,000
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