THREE OTTOMAN RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPTS WITH PRAYERS, HADITHS AND ZIKR
Ottoman Turkey and Provinces, 17th century and later

THREE OTTOMAN RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPTS WITH PRAYERS, HADITHS AND ZIKR
Ottoman Turkey and Provinces, 17th century and later

Arabic manuscripts on paper, comprising a book of prayers, 154ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black ink naskh script, verse markers in red, catchwords, set within gold and black rules, the colophon inscribed 10 Rajab 1077 AH (5 January 1667 AD), in card binding with dark red calf binding, the text panel 15.5cm x 9cm, the folio19.5cm x 14.2cm; a selection of Qur’anic verses, prayers, and zikr, with some Turkish poetry at the end, 32ff., each folio with 9ll. of black ink naskh script, some letters with mashq, chapter headings and verse markers in red, the opening folio of sura Yasin (36) with illuminated dome in blue and gold, charts and graphs in gold grids, set within concentric gold and blue rules, several folios left blank, in fine tooled flapped dark red morocco binding, the text panel 10.3cm x 5.3cm, the folio 14.6cm x 9.5cm; and another religious text, mostly of hadith and quotations, 58ff., plus one fly leaf, each folio with 21ll. of black free-flowing naskh script, chapter headings in green, significant words and punctuations in red, catchwords, in flapped dark brown blind-tooled calf binding, the folio 19.8cm x 14.8cm.

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