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Husain bin Muhammad bin Husain al-'Alawi, better known as Ibn Qadi al-'askar, Adab al-ziyarat li ashab al-maqamat al-muqadasah min ahl bayt al-nubuwah, a treatise on the twelve Shia Imams, copied by Husain bin Baha'-ad-Din Muhammad bin Husain al-Harithi al-Hamadani al-'Amili Persia or Iraq, dated end of rajab 1043/end of January 1634
23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Husain bin Muhammad bin Husain al-'Alawi, better known as Ibn Qadi al-'askar, Adab al-ziyarat li ashab al-maqamat al-muqadasah min ahl bayt al-nubuwah, a treatise on the twelve Shia Imams, copied by Husain bin Baha'-ad-Din Muhammad bin Husain al-Harithi al-Hamadani al-'Amili
Persia or Iraq, dated end of rajab 1043/end of January 1634
Persia or Iraq, dated end of rajab 1043/end of January 1634
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 203 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script (the Persian text) and naskhi script (the Arabic text), both scripts written in black ink, significant words and sentences picked out or underlined in red, catchwords, rather browned, some crude repairs, waterstaining, brown morocco covered with black embossed paper, worn at edges, splits to spine, with flap, doublures and flyleaves of yellow paper
240 x 135 mm.
240 x 135 mm.
Footnotes
The author and the text are apparently unrecorded. The scribe was the son of the famous Baha' al-Din Muhammad al-Harithi al-'Amili, known as Shaykh Baha'i (d. 1622), the Imami scholar, philosopher, poet, architect, mathematician and astronomer of the 16th Century. (See 'Baha al-Din 'Amili', in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3, pp. 429-30). The manuscript was given as a waqf by a certain 'Ali Akbar, titled Javan-mard (unidentified), according to the official Arabic waqf note composed by a certain Salman Bayg.