18TH CENTURY, MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI DALAIL KHAYRAT...

Hammer

£1,000

18TH CENTURY, MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI DALAIL KHAYRAT

"Dated 1190 AH-1776AD

Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 107ff. plus 1 fly-leaf , each folio 11 lines to the page, written in black naskh script on buff paper, between verses gold roundels outlined with black and four dots, beginning dyed pages in purple, text panels outlined in gold, page framed with silver line, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, headings with illuminated cartouches in gold and polychrome, Mecca and Madina illustrations on purple paper, another illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome, colophon signed and dated, occasional marginal notes in black and green, headpiece pages with basmala reserved under a floral design and with floral god roundels, brown Ottoman binding with flap decorated with stamped and tooled central medallion and borders, doublured with plain paper,

Size 18.3x11.5 cm"