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Abul-Fadhl‘Iyadh bin Musa ibn ‘Iyadh al-Yahsabi. Al-Shifa bi-Ta’rif Huquq al-Mustafa, a treatise on the Prophet Muhammad, Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1164/ AD 1750
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Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1164/ AD 1750
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1164/ AD 1750
Arabic manuscript on paper, 156 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in neat nasta’liq script in black ink, the word fasl (chapter) picked out in gold throughout, inner margins ruled in thick gold, catchwords in wide margins, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, slight worming and small repairs mostly restricted to outer margins, contemporary brown morocco with stamped central medallions and cornerpieces decorated with intertwining floral motifs in red on a gold painted ground, outer borders tooled in gold, some waterstaining, spine worn, with flap, repaired, doublures with stamped undecorated central medallions of leather onlay outlined in gilt, waterstaining, folio 1a with ownership inscription of Uthman Kamil, dated AH 1252/ AD 1836
folio 202 x 117 mm.
folio 202 x 117 mm.
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