A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland Matilda - 1988

Matilda - 1988

In the United States it received the American Booksellers Association's National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938

for the author

" the publication was delayed until August due to wartime paper shortages

A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland Matilda - 1988Late 18th century, circa 1785. Illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 x 12 cm, in a contemporary Ottoman binding. A finely illuminated Ottoman copy of the Dalail al Khayrat, written by the calligrapher Halil Sidki, a pupil of the celebrated master Seyyid Suleyman, who served as a preacher at the Sokullu Mehmed Pasha Mosque during the early 19th century. Halil Sidki belonged to the Ottoman tradition of the Aklam Sitte, literally the Six Scripts or