'ABD AL-JALIL IBN 'AZUM AL-MURADI AL-MAGHRIBI AL-QAYRAWANI (D. AH 960⁄1553 AD): THE FIRST QUARTER TO THE TANBIH AL-ANAM

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'ABD AL-JALIL IBN 'AZUM AL-MURADI AL-MAGHRIBI AL-QAYRAWANI (D. AH 960 / 1553 AD): THE FIRST QUARTER TO THE TANBIH AL-ANAM

NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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'ABD AL-JALIL IBN 'AZUM AL-MURADI AL-MAGHRIBI AL-QAYRAWANI (D. AH 960 / 1553 AD): THE FIRST QUARTER TO THE TANBIH AL-ANAM
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 194ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, containing prayers divided into sections for the days, illuminated shamsa on f.16r, begins with the names of God and Prophet Muhammad and a hilye on Prophet Muhammad in Persian, with words 'Allah' and 'Muhammad' picked out in red, intermittent lines with text reserved against gold clouds with polychrome illuminated panels, set within thick gold rules, section titles in gold thuluth, each part beginning with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in contemporaneous gilt binding with medallion design, the red doublures with similar design
Text panel 14 1⁄8 x 8 ½in (36 x 21.6cm); folio 16 7⁄8 x 10in. (43 x 25.4cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, 1960 and thence by descent

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Lot Essay

Like Dala’il al-Khayrat, this work consists of prayers for and eulogies on the Prophet Muhammad. Two Kashmiri prayer books of similar date and rich illumination were sold in these Rooms, 26 October 2023, lot 92 and 27 October 2022, lot 102.

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