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CHINA, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
细节
A PRAYER BOOK
CHINA, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
With prayers and suras, Arabic manuscript on paper, 59ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll. of black sini script, important phrases and words picked out in red, text within double green rules, with catchwords, opening bifolio with large illustrations of the Tomb of the Prophet and the tombs of Abu Bakr, 'Umar and Fatima, its reverse with the genealogy of the Prophet, the left hand side folio with a diagram possibly depicting the well of Zam Zam, two bifolios with gold and polychrome illuminated margins throughout, colophon with name of scribe as Mustafa bin Rashid al-Sini, city of copy as Ningxia (?) and date of AH 914/1508-9 AD, in original stamped brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 6¼ x 3¾in. (15.7 x 9.7cm.); folio 9½ x 6 5/8in. (24.1 x 17cm.)
CHINA, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
With prayers and suras, Arabic manuscript on paper, 59ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll. of black sini script, important phrases and words picked out in red, text within double green rules, with catchwords, opening bifolio with large illustrations of the Tomb of the Prophet and the tombs of Abu Bakr, 'Umar and Fatima, its reverse with the genealogy of the Prophet, the left hand side folio with a diagram possibly depicting the well of Zam Zam, two bifolios with gold and polychrome illuminated margins throughout, colophon with name of scribe as Mustafa bin Rashid al-Sini, city of copy as Ningxia (?) and date of AH 914/1508-9 AD, in original stamped brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 6¼ x 3¾in. (15.7 x 9.7cm.); folio 9½ x 6 5/8in. (24.1 x 17cm.)