A QAJAR ILLUMINATED PRAYER BOOK PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR Iran, 19th century Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 37ff., plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll., in black, gold, blue and red elegant naskh , with finely illuminated pagination and marginal markings, catchwords, in red, gold, and blue rules, and black and gold outer rules, in gilt tooled calf binding, stamped with ‘ Ya 'Ali Madad ’, a cry for help from Ali, twice on each side straddling a lobed central cartouche, the text panel 12cm x 7cm, the folio 20cm x 13cm. (the text panel 12cm x 7cm, the folio 20cm x 13cm)