A LARGE PRAYER BOOK

Lot 92
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 108 360
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Lot 92 | A LARGE PRAYER BOOK
Valeur estimée
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A LARGE PRAYER BOOK

KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

Containing 3,750 prayers divided into sections for the days of the week, Arabic manuscript on paper, 215ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh with words 'Allah' and 'Muhammad' picked out in red, intermittent lines with text reserved against gold clouds with polychrome illuminated panels, set within thick gold rules, catchwords, section titles in gold thuluth, each part beginning with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in contemporaneous gilt binding, the doublures black leather

Text panel 14 ¼ x 8 ½in. (36.2 x 22.2cm.); folio 17 1/8 x 10 5/8in. (43.4 x 23.2cm.)

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