• Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Manuscripts

    October 2009

Al-Jazuli’s Dala’il al-Khayrat, ‘Blessings on the Prophet’

Commissioned by Muhammad Ibn Shaykh and his uncle

Ethiopia, probably Harrar

Dated AH 1345/ 1920 AD

Several illustrations

24.5 x 19 cm

A printed amulet scroll (tarsh)

Fatimid Egypt

11th-12th century

10.5 x 3.5 cm

The Boughton Rouse Collection

A Library of Manuscripts collected by an English Scholar

India

18th century

72 Manuscripts and several hundred documents