Lot 31
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A PRAYER BOOK
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A PRAYER BOOK

CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

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A PRAYER BOOK
CHINA, 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 67ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll. of strong black sini, important words, phrases and headings picked out in red, verses marked with gold roundels and occasional rosettes, text panels outlined in double red rules, catchwords, occasional marginal notes, opening bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination surrounding 5ll. of text, final bifolio with simpler illumination composed of lotuses and floral motifs surrounding a further 5ll., some folios loose in binding, areas of staining to margins, in contemporaneous Chinese tooled brown morocco with flap
Text panel 7½ x 4¾in. (18.9 x 12cm.); folio 11 7/8 x 8½in. (30 x 21.8cm.)
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Lot Essay

This text comprises a compilation of Sufi poems and prayers in praise of the Prophet Muhammad and traditions relating to him. The work begins with praise for the Yemeni Sufi poet al-Hadi al-Sudi, whose poems appear in the work, and then of 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. It ends with a double illuminated page asking for God's forgiveness for Shams al-Sidq bin Fadil bin Abi'l-Futuh al-Sini, who is perhaps the compiler of the work.

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