Al-Ijaza Mubaraka b'ilm Muhammad Taqtaq (a Hajj certificate scroll), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Northern India or Mecca, dated 1260 AH (1844 AD)] Two decorated scrolls mounted together to form one long scroll, comprising: (i) 2 sheets of a Dastoor Yasidi, with illustrations of Mecca and Medina, highly decorated with colourful banners in green, yellow and pink forming breaks horizontally across sections of the scroll, incomplete at the end, this part 960 by 215mm.; (ii) a complete Hajj certificate scroll formed of 4 sheets, text in black naskh with a few marginal inscriptions and official seals, this part 2230 by 233mm., a few small smudges and ink stains, repair to small hole in the first part only, together 3190 by 233mm. Hajj certificates grew in popularity from the sixteenth century onwards but are rarely seen in scroll format. The present manuscript unusually merges a highly decorative pictorial scroll of Mecca and Medina, probably purchased as a pilgrim's relic, with a personalised and authenticated certificate of Hajj. For other examples of illustrated Hajj scrolls see Christie's, 7 April 2011, lot 267, and Sotheby's, 26 April 2017, lot 55.
Al-Ijaza Mubaraka b'ilm Muhammad Taqtaq (a Hajj certificate scroll), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Northern India or Mecca, dated 1260 AH (1844 AD)] Two decorated scrolls mounted together to form one long scroll, comprising: (i) 2 sheets of a Dastoor Yasidi, with illustrations of Mecca and Medina, highly decorated with colourful banners in green, yellow and pink forming breaks horizontally across sections of the scroll, incomplete at the end, this part 960 by 215mm.; (ii) a complete Hajj certificate scroll formed of 4 sheets, text in black naskh with a few marginal inscriptions and official seals, this part 2230 by 233mm., a few small smudges and ink stains, repair to small hole in the first part only, together 3190 by 233mm. Hajj certificates grew in popularity from the sixteenth century onwards but are rarely seen in scroll format. The present manuscript unusually merges a highly decorative pictorial scroll of Mecca and Medina, probably purchased as a pilgrim's relic, with a personalised and authenticated certificate of Hajj. For other examples of illustrated Hajj scrolls see Christie's, 7 April 2011, lot 267, and Sotheby's, 26 April 2017, lot 55.
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