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Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd

(Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498)

Mir Muhammad ibn Khawand Shah bin Mahmud (Mirkhwand) (d. 1498 AD): Rawdat al-Safa Fi Sirat al-Anbiya' Wa al-muluk wa al-Khulafa
Safavid Iran, dated Muharram 1045 / June 1635
The Gardens of purity in the biography of the prophets and kings and caliphs, Persian manuscript on paper, 304ff. plus five flyleaves, 21ll. of black naksh within gold and polychrome rules, important words in gold, blue and red, occasional marginal anotations, catchwords, illuminated royal library shamsa pasted on the opening folio, followed by an illuminated chapter heading, colophon, in contemporanous gilt stamped Safavid binding, gilt painted and découpé polychrome morocco doublures, occasional staining to the folios, in an overall good condition
Provenance: Royal library of Shah Safi Safavi (r. 1629-42) 

Our copy is the fourth volume of the Rawdat al-Safa. The text was originally completed by Mir Khwand in seven volumes in 1497 AD.
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Muhammad ibn Khvandshah ibn Mahmud, more commonly known as Mirkhvand (Persian: میرخواند, also transliterated as Mirkhwand; 1433/34 – 1498), was a Persian historian active during the reign of the Timurid ruler Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r. 1469–1506). He is principally known for his universal history, the Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ ("The garden of purity"), which he wrote under the patronage of the high-ranking functionary Ali-Shir Nava'i (died 1501). According to the German orientalist Bertold Spuler, the Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ is the greatest universal history in Persian regarding the Islamic world. (From Wikipedia)

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