Lot 256 DALA’IL AL-KHAYRAT, NORTH AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3006123

Arabic manuscript on paper, incomplete, 79 leaves with 7 lines to each page, written in Magribi script, titles and catchwords in red and blue. Polychrome Mihraab decoration with occasional marginal notes. A collection of prayers for the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which was written by the Moroccan Shadhili Sufi and Islamic scholar Muhammad Sulaiman al-Jazuli ash-Shadhili (died 1465).
11 by 11 cm.