£10,000 - £15,000
ALMANAC PREPARED FOR THE OTTOMAN SULTAN SELIM KHAN (R.1789-1807)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, BEGINNING OF 19TH CENTURY
MUHARRAM JUMAA 1221 AH – MARCH 1806 AD (NAWRUZ SULTANI) Ottoman manuscript on burnished thick, light cream paper, 8 folios, 19 lines of black naskh script, text arranged within tables, titles and important phrases and words picked out in gold, red, blue, green and orange, headings in larger gold or polychrome thuluth, text in thick gold frame, brown leather Ottoman binding with a central cusped gold medallion, with flap, marbled paper doublures covered with plain paper, Folio 24,3 x 16 cm Text 17,2 x 10,3 cm
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