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A PRAYER BOOK SIGNED YAHYA BIN HAMZA, STUDENT OF MAHMUD CELALEDDIN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1216/1801-02 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 132ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette markers, text within gold frame, catchwords, headings in white naskh within illuminated cartouches, opening folio with finely illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome, the text with a number of hilyehs, calligraphs, diagrams and illustrations of Mecca and Medina, illuminated colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous gilt and stamped brown morocco with flap, cobalt-blue paper doublures Text panel 3 ? x 2 1/8in. (9.5 x 5.5cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 4 ?in. (16.3 x 10.5cm.)