Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

165 c   (MANUSCRIPT.) Al-Jazuli, Muhammad Ibn Sulayman. Dala’il al-Khayrat. illuminated manuscript in arabic on paper, written in naskh script, 11 lines. Single-page opening illumination in colors and gold, divisional panels similarly decorated; gold roundels between verses. Ruled in gold, red, and blue throughout. 97 leaves, including 2 full-page painted illustrations in color of Mecca and Medina. 173x115 mm, gilt-tooled red leather over pasteboard with green leather onlays on covers and flap, spine and flap rebacked, endpapers renewed; blank upper outer corner torn and restored on 2 leaves in middle of volume, contents clean apart from smearing of ink on final double-page spread and obliterated writing in lower half of last page; buckram folding case. Bookplate of Raymond and Pamela Lister. Ottoman, copied by Hafiz Ahmad ‘Aziz bin Ahmad, 1075 [i. e., 1664-65] [1,000/1,500] MANUSCRIPTS LOTS 165 - 171 SEE ALSO LOTS 106, 146, 147, 148