A WORLD MAP AND A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF MECCA FROM THE KHARIDAT AL-AJA`IB OF IBN AL-WARDI (D.1348-9)

Lot 106
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 106 | A WORLD MAP AND A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF MECCA FROM THE KHARIDAT AL-AJA'IB OF IBN AL-WARDI (D.1348-9)
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
A WORLD MAP AND A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF MECCA FROM THE KHARIDAT AL-AJA'IB OF IBN AL-WARDI (D.1348-9)
PROBABLY OTTOMAN TURKEY, PROBABLY 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 4ff. in two bifolios, each folio with 15ll. black naskh, headings picked out in red, set within red double rules, one with a full-page colour map of the world with Europe and Byzantium in the lower right corner, Africa in the upper half and Asia in the lower left, the other with a diagram of the Haram in Mecca with the Kaaba and descriptions of the various mihrabs and their significance
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 ¼in. (13.8 x 8.2cm.); folio 8 1/8 x 5 5/8in. (20.6 x 14.2cm.)




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Private German collection, by repute assembled in the 1950s-1980s, from whom purchased by the present owner
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