ID 1033060
Lot 49 | 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-SAFFURI (D. 1488/9): NUZHAT AL-MAJALIS WA MUNTAKHAB AL-NAFA'IS
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 000
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN NASIR, MOROCCO, DATED 16 MUHARRAM AH 1255/1 APRIL 1839 AD
On prayers and devotion, Arabic manuscript on European watermarked paper, 161ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 33ll. of tight maghribi script, key words and phrases picked out in various coloured inks, set within red rules, catchwords, occasional marginal annotation, headings in maghribi thuluth, some folios with marginal medallions, the colophon signed and dated, opening with a table of contents, various later owner notes on fly-leaves including long essay in French, in contemporaneous gilt tooled red leather binding with flap, with plain paper doublures
Text panel 9 ¼ x 6 3/8in. (23.6 x 16.3cm.); folio 12 ½ x 9in. (31.8 x 22.9cm.)
| Place of origin: | Morocco, Africa |
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Place of origin: | Morocco, Africa |
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
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