OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED ISMA’IL BIN ISMA’IL WARDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1185/1771-72 AD
A selection of prayers including al-Jazuli’s (d. 1465 AD) Dala’il al-Khayrat, Arabic manuscript on paper, 204ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of naskh, with gold roundel verse markers, text within black and red-ruled gold frames, important words and titles picked out in red, marginal notes in red and black naskh, catchwords, opening folio with illuminated headpiece, seven further illuminated headpieces, two illustrations of Mecca and Medina, followed by stylised full-page illustrations of the grave of the Prophet, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and the minbar at Medina, two colophons, in brown associated morocco with flap, decorated with gilt stamped central medallion and spandrels and painted designs, gold sprinkled green paper doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 3/8in. (12.1 x 6.1cm.); folio 7 3/8 x 4 ¼in. (18.8 x 10.5cm.)
OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOK
SIGNED ISMA’IL BIN ISMA’IL WARDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1185/1771-72 AD
A selection of prayers including al-Jazuli’s (d. 1465 AD) Dala’il al-Khayrat, Arabic manuscript on paper, 204ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of naskh, with gold roundel verse markers, text within black and red-ruled gold frames, important words and titles picked out in red, marginal notes in red and black naskh, catchwords, opening folio with illuminated headpiece, seven further illuminated headpieces, two illustrations of Mecca and Medina, followed by stylised full-page illustrations of the grave of the Prophet, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and the minbar at Medina, two colophons, in brown associated morocco with flap, decorated with gilt stamped central medallion and spandrels and painted designs, gold sprinkled green paper doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 3/8in. (12.1 x 6.1cm.); folio 7 3/8 x 4 ¼in. (18.8 x 10.5cm.)
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