AN OTTOMAN TALISMANIC CHART WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE QURAN AND PRAYERS, 20TH CENTURY

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth and small square Kufic, in assorted colors, in numerous panels, roundels, cartouches and lines.
To the centre a large vieuw of Mecca with al-Masjid al-Haram with surah Al-Nasr at the top, surrounded by Dua'a al-Talbiyah in Kufic script. Further borderd by a band containing cartouches and squares with verse from the Quran an prayers.
The inscriptions of this band includes: Dua'a or prayer at first sight of Kaaba, prayer when hearing the Azaan, prayer about the sadness and the worries, prayer for drinking Zamzam water, Dua'a al-Tawaf, Dua'a when entering the prophet's grave. Alternating with squares of Quran verses and Kalimaat al-Tawhid in Kufic brown script. The outer two large bands contains:
surah Al-Baqarah v.158-v.203, surah Al-Imraan v.96-v.97, surah Al-Hajj v.26-27 in naskh and thuluth script.
110 by 88 cm.