SELECTED PRAYERS FROM ZAD UL MA'AD (PROVISIONS OF THE HEREAFTER, 1695) BY MOHAMMAD BAGHER MAJLESI (1627-1698) PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Iran and Southern Iraq, dated 1159 AH (1746) Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 282ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll., in black naskh script, markings in red, the opening folio illuminated in gold and polychromes, marginal notes in gold cartouches, two facing pages of name charts in red and black, in gold and blue ruling,signed by Muhammad Muhsin Al-Isfahani, commissioned in Najaf (Iraq) by Seyyed Mohammad Ibrahim Tabatabaie, dedicated Tuesday 27 Rajab 1297 AH (5 July 1880), in mirroring lacquer binding of a rose bush and a flying insect against black, the interior of plain red lacquer with gold ruling, with brown calf spine, the text panel 12.5cm x 6.5cm, the folio 18.5cm x 10.5cm.