Two prayer volumes, Sub-Saharan East Africa, probably Ethiopia or Yemen, second half 19th /first half 20th centuryTwo volumes including ‘Abd al-Jalil bin Muhammad bin Ahmed bin ‘Azum al-Muradi al Qayrawani (d.1553 AD), Kitab tanbih al-anam, on paper watermarked ‘Beyad Abu Subbak Istambuli/ ’ali asili’, incomplete, 20 lines to the page, written in black with the name of God and the Prophet Muhammad in red, in brown leather binding with flap, the other volume on European watermarked paper written in black with the name of God in red or purple, in brown leather binding with flap, a note at the end stating that it was started on the first day of Shawwal and it took six days to copy, folio 36 by 25cm. and 35 by 26.5 (2)The paper used in one of the two volumes bears a watermark which reads ‘Beyad Abu Subbak Istambuli/ ’ali asili’; for a further discussion on this particular watermark and its diffusion in the region of Ethiopia and Yemen, see Anne Regourd, “Manuscrits de la mer Rouge (première moitié du XX siècle): papiers Abu Subbak du Yémen et d’Éthiopie”, in A. Regourd (ed.) The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, 2018, pp.81-140.Please refer to department for condition report