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An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century image 1
An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century image 2
An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century image 3
An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century image 4
An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century image 5
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Lot 35

An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina
North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,500 - £3,500

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An illuminated collection of prayers, including al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two illustrations of Mecca and Medina
North India, Kashmir, 18th-19th Century

Arabic manuscript on light brown paper, 345 leaves, incomplete, 6 lines to the page written in large and bold naskhi script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, inner text borders consisting of pink flowers on a gold ground, the words Allah and Muhammad written in red, five double-page illuminated section frontispieces (ff.1b-2a, 119b-120a, 197b-198a and 300b-301a), two full-page illustrations of Mecca (f.50b) and Medina (f.51a), brown leather with stamped gilt medallions of leather onlay
235 x 140 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.

Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 231-233, no. 60.

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