OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOK DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT D'AL-JAZULI Manuscript on paper, 70 leaves, 13 lines of text per page in naskhi script in black and red ink, punctuated with gold rosettes, in a wide gold frame with blue and red fillets. Cartouches illuminated with polychrome foliage scrolls on a gold background, intended to give the titles of each section, left empty. Frontispiece illuminated with a polychrome cartouche decorated with foliage scrolls punctuated with rosettes. At the heart of the work, an illuminated double-page spread of illustrations of the Kaaba in Mecca and the mosque in Medina, framed by floral spandrels on a red background. Second frontispiece after the miniatures. Prayer added on the last three leaves. Bound in brown leather with gilded decoration of a poly-lobed medallion with double pendant and four spandrels, trimmed with palmettes. Inner boards covered with speckled paper. (Some running, wear, tears and old restorations on pages, some pages shorter). Turkey, Ottoman art, 19th century. AN OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOK, DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY. DIM. (binding) : 16,5 X 11 CM (6 1/2 X 4 5/16 IN.)