TWO MAGHRIBI MANUSCRIPTS: MUHAMMAD AL-JAZULI (D.1472)'S DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT
Morocco, North Africa, second half of the 19th century

Arabic manuscripts on paper, comprising a manuscript with 65ff., plus four fly leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black ink maghribi script, significant words in blue, red, and green, catchwords, the chapter headings in polychrome and gold illumination, some folios illuminated with representations of the Islamic holy sites, set within blue, black, and gold rules, in tooled dark red flapped calf binding, the text panel 14.5cm x 10.5cm, the folio 21.2cm x 17cm; and another, similar, 128ff., plus two fly leaves, each folio with 15ll. of sepia ink maghribi script, significant words in colour, catchwords, in marbled endpapers, and blind-tooled flapped calf binding, the folio 22cm x 16cm.