Muhammad AL-GIAZ. Dalâ’ilu l-Khayrât. Mss., Marocco 1850-1880.
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Description
Small 8vo, mm. 120x115; Binding in calf with blind tooling impressions; text within a frame with double red rules, North African type in red and black ink, illuminated with ornaments, easily legible handwriting
NORTH AFRICAN MANUSCRIPT of the nineteenth century, with splendid miniatures. The North African style, a form of Kufic with exaggerated extension of horizontal elements, developed first in Spain and was later used throughout northern Africa. The Dalâ'ilu l-Khayrat, or the signs of the benefits, the main traditional collection of 'Prayers on the Prophet', was composed by Muhammad Al-Giazûlî, in the ninth century Hegira, or in the early part of the fifteenth century of the Christian age.
NORTH AFRICAN MANUSCRIPT of the nineteenth century, with splendid miniatures. The North African style, a form of Kufic with exaggerated extension of horizontal elements, developed first in Spain and was later used throughout northern Africa. The Dalâ'ilu l-Khayrat, or the signs of the benefits, the main traditional collection of 'Prayers on the Prophet', was composed by Muhammad Al-Giazûlî, in the ninth century Hegira, or in the early part of the fifteenth century of the Christian age.
