AN OTTOMAN CALENDAR SCROLL FOR THE YEAR 1281 AH (1864-5)
Ottoman Provinces, signed Al Seyyed Hafez bin Saleh bin Ahmad Arabji Zada Angharavi (from Ankara), dated 1864

Arabic, Persian, Turkish text, and Arabic numerals on paper, in red, green, and black ink naskh script, containing several charts and graphs for each month, hour, times of prayer, marginal notes on significant corresponding events, with an oxblood red morocco leather tapering end lined in green and black silk, and red silk woven cord, the paper 84cm long, the leather end 12.5cm long, 8cm wide.