A BOOK OF PRAYERS, INCLUDING AN ILLUMINATED DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT, COPIED BY MEHMED RASIM, STUDENT OF MEHMED ZAKHI, JAZIRA, OTTOMAN, DATED 1285 AH/1868-69 AD |

Arabic manuscript on paper, 82 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page, written in fine naskh in black ink, keywords in red, ruled in gold, verses separated by gold pointed roundels, titles written in white naskh against a gold ground, within gold and polychrome floral cartouches, comments in the margins, 2 gold and polychrome double headpieces, f.19b and 20a with illustrations of Mecca and Medina, in brown binding decorated with gilt scrolls, with flap

In very good condition, with minor smudges and minor stains, minor damages to the binding, the margins clean and the illuviation bright and crisp as viewed.
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The commissioner of this fine prayerbook, Harif Ikmatbet, owner of a library in Medina, is named in the cartouche above the colophon alongside the illuminator, al-Haji Saleh Mehmed.