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OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT
OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Prayers in honour of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, 47ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within red and black ruled gold frame, opening folio with illuminated headpiece, with two original depictions of Mecca and Medina, colophon possibly added with name of 'Ali al-Shukri and dated AH 1214, some marginal added notes, with some old repairs, in modern brown stamped binding with flap
Text panel 4 x 2 3/8in. (9.8 x 6cm.); folio 6½ x 4¼in. (16.7 x 11cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Prayers in honour of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, 47ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within red and black ruled gold frame, opening folio with illuminated headpiece, with two original depictions of Mecca and Medina, colophon possibly added with name of 'Ali al-Shukri and dated AH 1214, some marginal added notes, with some old repairs, in modern brown stamped binding with flap
Text panel 4 x 2 3/8in. (9.8 x 6cm.); folio 6½ x 4¼in. (16.7 x 11cm.)