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Lot 11

Risalat Najat al-Musallin al-Khashi'in, prayers
Ottoman Turkey, 18th/19th Century

21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Risalat Najat al-Musallin al-Khashi'in, prayers
Ottoman Turkey, 18th/19th Century

Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 128 leaves, 9 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, text of last three folios written at 10 lines to the page in divani script in alternating red and black ink, text interspersed with gold discs, significant words underlined in red, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords in wide outer borders, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, folios 1v-2r with interlinear gilt cloudband decoration, browned, some staining restricted to outer borders, contemporary brown morocco with stamped central medallions decorated with intertwining floral and vegetal motifs and Chinese cloudbands, crudely rebacked, with flap, doublures of marbled paper
212 x 135 mm.

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