Lot n° 396

Muhammad AL-GIAZ. Dalâ’ilu l-Khayrât. Arabic Manuscript, second half of the XVIIIth century.

Estimation : Start Price 650 € /
Description
•Small 8vo, mm. 155x110; Contemporary calf binding with blind tooling impressions; Nashi type in red and black, some miniatures and polychrome decorations. Easily legible handwriting.

ARABIC MANUSCRIPT with two full-page miniatures. The writing is in Nashi, the style that replaced the Kufic around the eleventh century. The nashi is a form of emphasis, but specific laws governing the proportions between the letters: curved lines, always harmonious, have spiral segments, and the letters are developed equally above and below the midline.
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