Selected suras from the Qur'an, and prayers, including al-Asma' al-Husna, The Ninety-Nine Names of God, copied by Suleyman al-Khalis, a pupil of Abdul-Rahman al-Tawfiqi (Abdurrahman Tevfiki) Ottoman Empire, Vidin, Bulgaria, at the dargah (sufi lodge) of Salah al-Din Baba, dated AH 1262/AD 1845-46


Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 35 leaves and four blanks, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, verses marked with gold roundels with blue and red dots, significant words written in red, inner margins ruled in black and gold, chapter headings consisting of a gold panel with blue, pink, green and yellow surrounds, occasional marginal commentaries and catchwords and wide margins, two illuminated headpieces in colours and gold, red morocco with stamped central medallions and cornerpieces, worn, with flap 173 x 113 mm.
|ProvenancePrivate US collection, 1960-present.The last leaf bears the seal impression of the manuscript's first owner, Al-Sayyid 'Uthman Nuri, dated AH 1263/AD 1846-47.