KUNUZ AL-ANAM FI AD'IYYAH AL-AYYAM SIGNED YAHYA AL-SUFI, THE TEXT PROBABLY SHIRAZ, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY, THE MARGINS, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY Prayers for the days of the week, Arabic manuscript on paper, 17ff., plus four flyleaves, 5ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, headings in gold thuluth in clouds reserved against a red-hatched ground, opening folio with 4ll. in clouds reserved against a ground decorated with scrolling split-palmettes and cintamani motifs, final folio with colophon, signed, each folio mounted within 16th century Ottoman stencilled margins decorated with large-scale interlacing split-palmettes outlined in gold and silver on variously coloured grounds, in Mamluk brown leather binding with flap with central geometric roundels, brown leather doublures moulded with interlacing scrolls, Text panel 4 ½ x 3 1/8in. (11.5 x 8cm.); folio 10 5/8 x 6 ¾in. (27.4 x 17.1cm.)
KUNUZ AL-ANAM FI AD'IYYAH AL-AYYAM SIGNED YAHYA AL-SUFI, THE TEXT PROBABLY SHIRAZ, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY, THE MARGINS, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY Prayers for the days of the week, Arabic manuscript on paper, 17ff., plus four flyleaves, 5ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, headings in gold thuluth in clouds reserved against a red-hatched ground, opening folio with 4ll. in clouds reserved against a ground decorated with scrolling split-palmettes and cintamani motifs, final folio with colophon, signed, each folio mounted within 16th century Ottoman stencilled margins decorated with large-scale interlacing split-palmettes outlined in gold and silver on variously coloured grounds, in Mamluk brown leather binding with flap with central geometric roundels, brown leather doublures moulded with interlacing scrolls, Text panel 4 ½ x 3 1/8in. (11.5 x 8cm.); folio 10 5/8 x 6 ¾in. (27.4 x 17.1cm.)
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