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Husain ibn Mas`ud al-Farra al-Baghawi, Masabih al-sunnah, volume one of a collection of authentic Hadith, Islamic Traditions, copied by Amir Ahmad ibn Jamal al-Din al-Bakbazari, in Qunya
Turkey, AH 843/ AD 1439

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,200

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Husain ibn Mas`ud al-Farra al-Baghawi, Masabih al-sunnah, volume one of a collection of authentic Hadith, Islamic Traditions, copied by Amir Ahmad ibn Jamal al-Din al-Bakbazari, in Qunya
Turkey, AH 843/ AD 1439

Arabic manuscript on paper, 245 leaves, 13 lines of text to the page, copied in neat black naskhi script with copious marginal and interlinear annotations, beginning of each tradition highlighted by a red dot, titles marked by larger ornamental script, several ownership seals, stamped brown leather binding worn, first few gatherings detached, waterstaining restricted to outer margins throughout
243 x 185 mm.

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