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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
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PRAYER BOOK
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 15ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, some words picked out in red, parts divided by gold cartouches, the opening bifolio with two floral gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces, with gold floral margins, with catchwords and repeated religious seal impression, the doublures of turquoise-blue stamped paper, in contemporaneous gilt and stamped dark morocco binding with flap, with book plate of Sefik E. Atabey
Text panel 4 1/8 x 2 3/8in. (10.5 x 6cm.); folio 7 x 4¾in. (17.7 x 11.9cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 15ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, some words picked out in red, parts divided by gold cartouches, the opening bifolio with two floral gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces, with gold floral margins, with catchwords and repeated religious seal impression, the doublures of turquoise-blue stamped paper, in contemporaneous gilt and stamped dark morocco binding with flap, with book plate of Sefik E. Atabey
Text panel 4 1/8 x 2 3/8in. (10.5 x 6cm.); folio 7 x 4¾in. (17.7 x 11.9cm.)