IN THE NAME OF YAQUT AL-MUSTA'SIMI, AN EXCEPTIONAL... Lot 29

IN THE NAME OF YAQUT AL-MUSTA'SIMI, AN EXCEPTIONAL 13TH CENTURY KITAB AL-DAAWAT MANUSCRIPT Compromising various prayers and suras, arabic manuscript on gold sprinkled paper, 11ll. Of black naskh script, between verses gold roundels outlined with blue, significant words picked out with gold, text outlined with gold and blue rules, marginal commentaries in black, three section headings written white kufic within gold and polychrome elegantly illuminated rectangular cartouches, headings in gold thulth reserved on alternatively pinkn of blue flourishing leafy vines ground, gold gilt European leather binding.  Owners research deemed calligrapher hand to be in the name of Yaqut Al-Musta-simi  27cm x 18cm  Amendment of provenance: The Personal Collection Of Professor Rudolf Gelpke, a swiss scholar (1928-1972)