MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
SIGNED AL-SAYYID 'ABDULLAH, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 70ff. plus three flyleafs each with 13ll. of black naskh in panels outlined in red and gold, gold rosette verse markers, catchwords, two illuminated headpieces, with contemporaneous illustrations of Mecca and Medina and tombs, outer margins with rococo sprays of flowers, in contemporaneous brown morocco decorated with sunburst motif in gold, one cover detached, flap lacking; together with a 19th century Ottoman prayer book, 13ll. of black naskh to the page, with six illuminated hilyehs, in original stamped morocco, in brown slip case
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 5/8in. (12 x 6.6cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4 ¼in. (17.5 x 10.8cm.)
MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
SIGNED AL-SAYYID 'ABDULLAH, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 70ff. plus three flyleafs each with 13ll. of black naskh in panels outlined in red and gold, gold rosette verse markers, catchwords, two illuminated headpieces, with contemporaneous illustrations of Mecca and Medina and tombs, outer margins with rococo sprays of flowers, in contemporaneous brown morocco decorated with sunburst motif in gold, one cover detached, flap lacking; together with a 19th century Ottoman prayer book, 13ll. of black naskh to the page, with six illuminated hilyehs, in original stamped morocco, in brown slip case
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 5/8in. (12 x 6.6cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4 ¼in. (17.5 x 10.8cm.)
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