A PRAYER BOOK: AN'AM SHARIF Ottoman Turkey, 19th...
A PRAYER BOOK: AN'AM SHARIF
Ottoman Turkey, 19th century, signed Mohammad al Ma’rouf be Hilmi
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 26ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll., in black naskh script, with gold rosette markers, text within gold, black, and red ruling, catchwords, opening folio with gold and polychrome illumination, several charts containing sacred names, prayers, holy invocations and titles in alphabetical order, the charts of 3x5 boxes, text markings in red, final folio with a flowering vase within a gilt circle, in original gilt painted and stamped morocco binding with flap of tooled and painted brown leather, the text panel 8.7cm x 5.2cm and the folio 14cm x 9.5cm.
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A PRAYER BOOK: AN'AM SHARIF
Ottoman Turkey, 19th century, signed Mohammad al Ma’rouf be Hilmi
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 26ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll., in black naskh script, with gold rosette markers, text within gold, black, and red ruling, catchwords, opening folio with gold and polychrome illumination, several charts containing sacred names, prayers, holy invocations and titles in alphabetical order, the charts of 3x5 boxes, text markings in red, final folio with a flowering vase within a gilt circle, in original gilt painted and stamped morocco binding with flap of tooled and painted brown leather, the text panel 8.7cm x 5.2cm and the folio 14cm x 9.5cm.
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