DEVOTIONAL MANUSCRIPT (1) - Ink on paper and leather binding - MANOSCRITTO DEVOZIONALE. DI PASSI CORANICI - Iran - 18th century

Arabic manuscript consisting of 83 papers, of which both the first 3 and the last 2 were inserted later and left blank. It is presumed that it was composed for devotional and magic-apotropaic purposes by a single person or by a Sufi religious brotherhood. Average sheet dimensions: 156 x 91 mm; average dimensions of the writing mirror: 98 x 60 mm. The decorative apparatus with simple gold-coloured bands and shaped rosettes with hints of petals between the verses suggests an eastern/Iranian origin. Initial textual gap: the text begins with part of the sura XXXVI (Yā Sīn)