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Description: | Muslim prayer book, leather bound, with inside the front cover a label from Cooper's Bookbinders, 97 High Street ,Croydon, and bearing a Frederick Horniman book plate. A handwritten note in ink inside the next page reads: 'not all by same writer probably belonged to an ancient Spanish Moor Mograbin characters very choice 20/-'. A printed slip inserted between the 96th and 97th pages reads: 'Various MOHAMMEDAN PRAYERS. A curious volume, in small 4to, written in a rude but very distinct Mograbin character, nearly approaching the Cufic; pointed in a different-coloured ink. I should guess that this is an old copy, and has belonged to a Spanish Moor. 152pp.'
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn12676
caption: Detail view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn12676 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | paper (fiber product) paper books (ritual & belief: ritual apparatus) leather pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-123179 | Go to resource |
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