AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, PRAYER BOOK, MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-...

Hammer

£1,600

AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, PRAYER BOOK, MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D1465AD), DALA’IL KHAYRAT, SIGNED BY DERVISH QASIM, 18TH CENTURY, DATED 1169AH/1735 AD

"A fine copy of a renowned prayer book, praise of the Prophet Muhammad.
Arabic manuscript on paper, 157ff. plus in the middle one fly-leaf, each folio with 11ll.of fine black naskh script, between the verse gold and multicoloured roundels, text within thick gold frame with polychrome rules, opening folio headpiece finely illuminated with gold and multicoloured floral design,titles in white thuluth script, within gold and multicoloured cartouches, two original miniatures of Mecca and Madina,followed by another illuminated headpiece,marginal notes in red and black, colophon signed and dated, floral marginal medallions, doubloured with green paper, ottoman leather binding, later flap.

15x 10,2 cm
11,3 x 6,4 cm"