AN ILLUMINATED COLLECTION OF PRAYERS, INCLUDING DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED COLLECTION OF PRAYERS, INCLUDING DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on light brown paper, 345 leaves plus 3 fly-leaves, 6 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, ruled with a frame of pink flower scrolls against a gold ground, the words Allah and Muhammad written in red, titles written in white against gold ground within floral cartouches, 4 polychrome and gold bifolia (ff.1b-2a, 119b-120a, 197b-198a and 300b-301a), illustrations of Mecca (f.50b) and Medina (f.51a), incomplete, in brown leather binding with gilt plaques

text panel: 17 by 9cm.

leaf: 23.1 by 13.2cm.