A MOROCCAN MANUSCRIPT OF AL JAZULI’S DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
Morocco, North-Western Africa, 19th century

A MOROCCAN MANUSCRIPT OF AL JAZULI’S DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
Morocco, North-Western Africa, 19th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 182ff. plus ten fly-leaves, eight of which with annotations, 11ll. of dark sepia ink maghribi script to the page, significant names and words in blue and red ink, diacritic marks in black, chapter headings with polychrome illumination, a schematic illuminated folio with the sacred cenotaph of the Prophet, another of the holy minbar, catchwords, marginal scrolling motifs marking chapter headings, stylised bookmarks of thicker paper protecting the illuminated chapter headings, set within blue and red rules, the final six folios without rules, in a tooled brown calf flapped binding, the text panel 15cm x 10cm, the folio 21.2cm x 16.5cm.

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Dimensions: the text panel 15cm x 10cm, the folio 21.2cm x 16.5cm