Lot 836
836
MOROCCAN PRAYERBOOK, containing two so-called 'hirz' (=protective prayers, lit. 'amulet'). (1817). 30 lvs. thick Oriental paper (c. 80x75 mm), 9 or 10 lines w. Maghribi script in black, captions/decorations in red & green, second 'hirz' contains a few talisman-like drawings. Cont. blind tooled cf. w. flap. (Bind. a bit chafed in places, ends of flap slightly dam., first two lvs. a bit soiled, inner lower margin slightly dampstained, ink a bit ran out in places).
The first one (fol. 1a-14b) is the Hirz al-Andaruz, after a hadîth ascribed to Anas b. Malik and culled from al-Bukhârîs al-Jâmic al-Sahîh; the second hirz (fol. 15a-26b) is called al-Hirz al-sharîf, an enumeration of a few of God's so-called beautiful names together with some magical formulae. Interestingly, on one of the leaves (fol. 9a) the reader is advised to skip this page and to continue on the v° ("fî al-safha al-ukjra"); the text on fol. 9a has been diagonally crossed in red ink.€ 200
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