Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MANUSCRIPT.) Al-Jazuli, Muhammad Ibn Sulayman. Dala'il al-Khayrat. illuminated manuscript in arabic on paper, written in naskh script, 11 lines. Single-page opening illumination in colors and gold, divisional panels similarly decorated; gold roundels between verses. Ruled in gold, red, and blue throughout. 97 leaves, including 2 full-page painted illustrations in color of Mecca and Medina. 173x115 mm, gilt-tooled red leather over pasteboard with green leather onlays on covers and flap, spine and flap rebacked, endpapers renewed; blank upper outer corner torn and restored on 2 leaves in middle of volume, contents clean apart from smearing of ink on final double-page spread and obliterated writing in lower half of last page; buckram folding case. Bookplate of Raymond and Pamela Lister. Ottoman, copied by Hafiz Ahmad 'Aziz bin Ahmad, 1075 [i. e., 1664-65]