MUHAMMAD IBN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1465 AD): DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT SIGNED...
MUHAMMAD IBN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1465 AD): DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT
SIGNED HASAN AL-FAWZI, KNOWN AS QALTAQJI-ZADA AL-KUTAHI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1242 / 1826-27 AD
The renowned prayer book in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, 146ff. plus six fly-leaves, 11ll. black naskh on cream-polished paper, important words and phrases highlighted in red, catchwords, three gold and polychrome illuminated half-page headings, including on opening folio, headings in white on gold within illuminated floral cartouches, f.15v-16r views of Mecca and Medina, f.114v-146v. alphabetical index of Martyrs of Badr, colophon signed, in contemporaneous stamped brown morocco binding, the gold doublures with diagram of an astrolabe surrounded by the names of the four Caliphs and Hassan and Husayn ibn Ali and verses from the Qur'an
Text panel 3 x 1 5/8in. (7.5 x 4cm.); folio 4½ x 3in. (11.4 x 7.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 22 November 1984, lot 147
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MUHAMMAD IBN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1465 AD): DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT
SIGNED HASAN AL-FAWZI, KNOWN AS QALTAQJI-ZADA AL-KUTAHI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1242 / 1826-27 AD
The renowned prayer book in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, 146ff. plus six fly-leaves, 11ll. black naskh on cream-polished paper, important words and phrases highlighted in red, catchwords, three gold and polychrome illuminated half-page headings, including on opening folio, headings in white on gold within illuminated floral cartouches, f.15v-16r views of Mecca and Medina, f.114v-146v. alphabetical index of Martyrs of Badr, colophon signed, in contemporaneous stamped brown morocco binding, the gold doublures with diagram of an astrolabe surrounded by the names of the four Caliphs and Hassan and Husayn ibn Ali and verses from the Qur'an
Text panel 3 x 1 5/8in. (7.5 x 4cm.); folio 4½ x 3in. (11.4 x 7.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 22 November 1984, lot 147
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Time, Location
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