219 - A prayer manuscript : Kitab hizb al-azm and Dala'il al-Khayrat,

A prayer manuscript : Kitab hizb al-azm and Dala'il al-Khayrat, Ottoman Turkey, the second copied by Darwish Kacem, dated AH1169/1755, Arabic manuscript on paper, 155ff., 2fl., 11ll. of black naskh script to the page within thin gold borders ruled in blue and red and wider plain margins , plain gold headings or in red naskh script, catchword to each right page's lower left corner, gold rosette markers picked in red and blue, marginal foliated and floral gold and polychrome medallions, the illuminated opening bifolio's headboard consisting of an entrelaces of floral trendrils under a cusped pointed arh picked in pink, stylised blue floral sprays above, a cusped cartouche with white naskh within a cusped cartouche amidst flowers below, the binding tooled with a central mandorla containing interlocking swaying floral tendrils, each corner spandrels with similar decoration, the flap plain, text block previously trimmed, 15 x 10.5cm., folio 15 x 9.8cm.