ID 1306521
Lot 20 | QADI 'IYYAD IBN MUSA (D.1149 AD): KITAB SHIFA' AL-SHARIF
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
SIGNED QAYMAS IBN 'ABDULLAH AL-QASIMI, MAMLUK CAIRO, DATED 28 DHU'L-QADA AH 823 / 4 DECEMBER 1420 AD
A treatise on the virtues of the Prophet, Arabic manuscript on paper, 229ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 23ll. black naskh, section headings picked out in red, the margins with copious annotations in various hands, catchwords, colophons signed and dated, opening folio with library stamps, in contemporaneous brown leather binding with flap decorated with tooled medallions, the doublures of marbled paper, some wear and restoration to the edges of the opening and closing pages, one replaced quire
Folio 10 ¼ x 7 ¼in. (26.2 x 18.3)
Provenance
Demir 'Ali Arza, Korçë, Albania, 1905,
thence by descent
| Art style: | Mamluk (1250-1517) |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts |
| Art style: | Mamluk (1250-1517) |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
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