AN OTTOMAN DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT (PRAYER BOOK) SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI DATED 1158AHDala’il al- Khayrat MUHAMMAD BIN SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI (D. 1465 AD)Signed by Ahmad bin Muhammad ( student of Muhammad Rasim Imamzadeh)Dated AH 1158/ AD 1745The renowned prayer book in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, each folio with 10ll. of black naskh within thick gold rules, gold rosette verse markers, gold and polychrome illuminated opening heading, marginal notes in black and red, chapter headings in red thuluth script separated within gold framed rectangular cartouches, with illustrations of Mecca and Medina, colophon signed and dated, in gilt and tooled Ottoman leather binding without flap, Folio 14,7 x 11 cmText  10 x 5,5 cmNote;our calligrapher’s tutor IMAMZADEH was a calligraphy teacher at both the Galata and Topkapi Palaces, and it is thought that he taught a total of almost a thousand students during these two posts. He is responsible for sixty copies of the Qur'an, a number of architectural inscriptions in jali thuluth script, and innumerable single pieces, albums and hilyes. For more information, see M. Derman, Eternal Letters, Sharjah, 2009, pp.98-99.