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AL-DURRA AL-YATIMA FI AL-MADA'IH AL-KARIMA OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY 'The Unmatched Pearl concerning the Noble Eulogies', Arabic manuscript on dark cream burnished paper, 85ff. plus three fly leaves, each folio with 16ll. of black naskh, chapter headings and important words in gold, text panel outlined in gold, text arranged in various forms on the first five folios, the remaining folios with three columns of diagonal lines of nasta’liq with black-ruled gold intercolumnar divisions, opening folio with possibly added illuminated roundel dedication to Sultan Bayezid, fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes, in later Ottoman brown morocco, cream paper doublures Text panel 5 x 3 3/8in. (12.4 x 8.3cm.); folio 7 x 5 ?in. (17.7 x 13.2cm.)