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SIGNED AHMAD FUAD AL-SHUMNAW, STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI AL-SHUMNAW AL-NAQSHI, BULGARIA OR TURKEY, DATED SHAWWAL AH 1302/JULY 1884 AD
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AN OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED AHMAD FUAD AL-SHUMNAW, STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI AL-SHUMNAW AL-NAQSHI, BULGARIA OR TURKEY, DATED SHAWWAL AH 1302/JULY 1884 AD
Including al-Jazuli’s Dala’il al-Khayrat, a renowned prayer book in praise of the Prophet Muhammad and other prayers, Arabic manuscript on paper, 86ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 11ll. of Ottoman naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text within black and red-ruled gold frames, catchwords, occasional marginal notes within illuminated medallions, headings in white thuluth against gold ground within illuminated cartouches, opening bifolio with illuminated headpiece in rococo style, two contemporaneous illustrations of Mecca and Medina, colophon signed and dated, in brown morocco with flap, decorated with gilt stamped and painted lattice design, polished red paper doublures
Text panel 3 5/8 x 2 1/8in. (9.1 x 5.4cm.); folio 5.2/8 x 3.6/8in. (13.1 x 9.5cm.)
SIGNED AHMAD FUAD AL-SHUMNAW, STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI AL-SHUMNAW AL-NAQSHI, BULGARIA OR TURKEY, DATED SHAWWAL AH 1302/JULY 1884 AD
Including al-Jazuli’s Dala’il al-Khayrat, a renowned prayer book in praise of the Prophet Muhammad and other prayers, Arabic manuscript on paper, 86ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 11ll. of Ottoman naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text within black and red-ruled gold frames, catchwords, occasional marginal notes within illuminated medallions, headings in white thuluth against gold ground within illuminated cartouches, opening bifolio with illuminated headpiece in rococo style, two contemporaneous illustrations of Mecca and Medina, colophon signed and dated, in brown morocco with flap, decorated with gilt stamped and painted lattice design, polished red paper doublures
Text panel 3 5/8 x 2 1/8in. (9.1 x 5.4cm.); folio 5.2/8 x 3.6/8in. (13.1 x 9.5cm.)
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