A collection of prayers and religious poems, including Al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat wa shawariq al-anwar, with two stylised illuminated diagrams of the tombs in the holy shrines in Mecca and Medina, Ibn al-Jazari's al-Husn al-Hasin, and al-Busiri's al-Burdah North Africa, probably Morocco, 18th Century


Arabic manuscript on paper, 308 leaves, 9 lines to the page written in maghribi script in dark brown ink, one illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, inner margins ruled in blue and red, significant words in gold, red and blue, frequent illuminated headings, contemporary red leather gilt with stamped palmette motifs, with flap, in later Ottoman style embroidered velvet pouch, together with a letter dated 9th October 1891 addressed to a former owner of the manuscript 82 x 80 mm.
|ProvenancePrivate UK collection since at least the early 20th Century.The letter gives an outline of the text and its author confesses that he feels 'utterly incapable' of providing the owner with a translation, and recommends a certain L. M. Simmons of Owen's College as being more suitable.