AL-MAWLID AL-NABAWI (THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET) TWO VOLUMES IN...
AL-MAWLID AL-NABAWI (THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET) TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1209 AH (1794 AD)
Arabic text on paper, composed of 28 leaves and 1 endleaf, 23 lines to the page, written in neat black naskh script, with the inner margins ruled in gilt, catchwords, Waqf inscription with a stamp, mounted in an elaborate late 16th-century Safavid lacquered leather binding with flap, tooled with a carpet medallion filled with sprays and cloudbands against a gilt ground on the front cover and with polychrome lacquered cartouches to the doublures.
23cm x 15.2cm
Note on the second volume reads: This Mawlid Al-Sharif [book] was endowed seeking the pleasure of God Almighty by Al-Sayyid Abdul Wahhab, son of Abdullah Effendi, son of Fathullah Effendi Muwaqqi'-zade, as a valid and legally binding endowment (waqf). It shall not be sold, pawned, purchased, gifted, exchanged, or altered. So whoever alters it after hearing it, the sin thereof is upon those who alter it. Indeed, God is Hearing and Knowing.
For a closely related binding, see:
The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, acc. no. TIEM 248).
AL-MAWLID AL-NABAWI (THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET) TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1209 AH (1794 AD)
Arabic text on paper, composed of 28 leaves and 1 endleaf, 23 lines to the page, written in neat black naskh script, with the inner margins ruled in gilt, catchwords, Waqf inscription with a stamp, mounted in an elaborate late 16th-century Safavid lacquered leather binding with flap, tooled with a carpet medallion filled with sprays and cloudbands against a gilt ground on the front cover and with polychrome lacquered cartouches to the doublures.
23cm x 15.2cm
Note on the second volume reads: This Mawlid Al-Sharif [book] was endowed seeking the pleasure of God Almighty by Al-Sayyid Abdul Wahhab, son of Abdullah Effendi, son of Fathullah Effendi Muwaqqi'-zade, as a valid and legally binding endowment (waqf). It shall not be sold, pawned, purchased, gifted, exchanged, or altered. So whoever alters it after hearing it, the sin thereof is upon those who alter it. Indeed, God is Hearing and Knowing.
For a closely related binding, see:
The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, acc. no. TIEM 248).
