"EARLY 19TH CENTURY PRAYER BOOK, SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD SHAWKI T...

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£6,000 - £8,000

"EARLY 19TH CENTURY PRAYER BOOK,
SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD SHAWKI TRABZONI (STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD WASFI EFENDI), D. 1254AH-1838AD"

Early 19th century Ottoman Turkish manuscript, 96ff. plus one fly-leaf, 17ll. of black naskh script, gold roundels between verses, gold outlined with gold, illuminated opening heading in gold and polychrome, Arabic numerals on the margins, other headings in red, owner notes at beginning and end, include schemes and charts, colophon dated and signed, signed (Tawfika) and dated (1960AD) binding with flap, in the centre rose with branch , edges with cage illumination, doublured with marbled paper