A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland and the front cover lettered

and the front cover lettered and decorated in black

this leaflet (These were printed and distributed nationwide) urged citizens to "STAND FIRM" in the face of attack and

for the author

Oxford life and public welfare

wartime destroyer commander and later Chief of Naval Operations

A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland and the front cover letteredLate 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