A SMALL PRAYER BOOK
Ottoman Turkey, 19th century

Arabic and Turkish manuscript on paper, 34ff. plus two fly leaves, each highly burnished folio with 9ll. of black ink naskh script, the opening bifolio with standard dark blue, red, and gold illumination, the heading and interlinear gold marks pin-pricked, within gold and black rules, the remaining folios containing several charts of noble names in alphabetical order, chapter headings in red, with marbled end papers, set in a gold-stamped dark brown flapped leather binding, the text panel 8cm x 5cm, the folio 12.2cm x 7.7cm.

Dimensions: the text panel 8cm x 5cm, the folio 12.2cm x 7.7cm