NUR AL-DIN ALI AL-SAMHUDI (D.1533): TARIKH AL-MEDINA AL-SHARIF

Lot 127
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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£ 30 000
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Lot 127 | NUR AL-DIN ALI AL-SAMHUDI (D.1533): TARIKH AL-MEDINA AL-SHARIF
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£ 30 000 – 40 000
NUR AL-DIN ALI AL-SAMHUDI (D.1533): TARIKH AL-MEDINA AL-SHARIF
COMPLETED IN THE RAWDAH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, OTTOMAN MEDINA, DATED END OF SHAWWAL AH 979/MARCH 1572 AD
The text alternatively entitled Kitab al-Wafa’ bi-Akhbar Dar al-Mustafa, Arabic manuscript on paper, 256ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 22ll. black naskh with headings and key words picked out in red, occasional crossing-out in gold ink, text panels within blue and gold rules, the margins plain, catchwords, two diagrams of the layout of the Prophet's mosque, the opening folio with the title in white thuluth within an illuminated shamsa, the verso with an illuminated header with the bismallah in white reserved against a gold cartouche on a blue illuminated panel, the colophon dated and with the place of copying, in later blind tooled leather binding, the doublures plain
Text panel 5 ¼ x 3 ¼in. (13.5 x 8.1cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 5 1/8in. (18.4 x 13.1cm.)




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Private collection, Qatar, 1996-2019
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