Lot 114
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MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
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MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT

SIGNED ABU BEKIR BIN MEHMET, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1191/1777-78 AD

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MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1472 AD): DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
SIGNED ABU BEKIR BIN MEHMET, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1191/1777-78 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 85ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh, key words highlighted in red, gold and polychrome rosette verse roundels, chapter headings in gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the opening with an illuminated gold and polychrome floral headpiece and elaborate gold rosette verse markers, full page gold and polychrome illustrations of the Masjid al-Haram at Mecca and the Mosque of the Prophet at Medina, colophon signed and dated and followed by prayers in a triangular cartouche on a ground of gold scrolling floral vine, in a contemporaneous stamped and gilded brown leather morocco with green paper doublures
Text panel 4¾ x 2¾in. (12.2 x 6.9cm.); folio 6¼ x 4 3/8in. (15.9 x 11cm.)
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Lot Essay

A note at the end of this manuscript states that the scribe was asked by a certain Husayn bin 'Abdullah to give him permission for the correct recital of the Dala'il al-Khayrat. The scribe then relates that he himself received permission from his own Sheikh, Sheikh Mehmet Efendi known as Agha-zade, who himself received permission from his own Sheikh, in a line stretching back to the author himself. The scribe then gives two further lineages (asnad) for the transmission of the text stretching back to al-Jazuli.

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