KITAB AL-MAZAMIR (BOOK OF PSALMS) Ottoman Lands, possibly Syria or...
KITAB AL-MAZAMIR (BOOK OF PSALMS)
Ottoman Lands, possibly Syria or Lebanon, 17th-18th century
Arabic text on paper, composed of 150 pages, with 1 endpaper, incomplete; 10–13 lines to the page, written in blue, red and black naskh script; catchwords and marginal notes; the first four pages illuminated with an inner frame filled with interlaced stylised red and blue leaves, the first leaf illustrated with a Christian figure within an arched aedicule; brown leather binding.
12cm x 16.8cm x 3.7cm
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KITAB AL-MAZAMIR (BOOK OF PSALMS)
Ottoman Lands, possibly Syria or Lebanon, 17th-18th century
Arabic text on paper, composed of 150 pages, with 1 endpaper, incomplete; 10–13 lines to the page, written in blue, red and black naskh script; catchwords and marginal notes; the first four pages illuminated with an inner frame filled with interlaced stylised red and blue leaves, the first leaf illustrated with a Christian figure within an arched aedicule; brown leather binding.
12cm x 16.8cm x 3.7cm
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
