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Lot 254

Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah bin 'Azzuz al-Marrakushi al-Susi al-Tilimsani (fl. 1766), better known as Ibn 'Azuz al-Marakkishi as-Susi, Kitab Dhahab al-kusuf wa naqi al-zulmah fi 'ilm al-tibb wa-tabayi' al-hayawan wa'l-nabat wa'l-hikmah, a treatise on medicine, plants and the behaviour of animals, a very early copy of the work
North Africa, probably Morocco, dated 7th Muharram 1197/12th December 1782

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah bin 'Azzuz al-Marrakushi al-Susi al-Tilimsani (fl. 1766), better known as Ibn 'Azuz al-Marakkishi as-Susi, Kitab Dhahab al-kusuf wa naqi al-zulmah fi 'ilm al-tibb wa-tabayi' al-hayawan wa'l-nabat wa'l-hikmah, a treatise on medicine, plants and the behaviour of animals, a very early copy of the work
North Africa, probably Morocco, dated 7th Muharram 1197/12th December 1782

Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 214 leaves, 16 lines to the page written in neat maghribi script in black ink, significant words, sentences and titles picked out in red and blue, inner margins ruled in blue and red, catchwords in wide outer margins, an illuminated title page with the full name of the author and title written in gold, some waterstaining mostly restricted to outer margins, contemporary red morocco gilt, covers decorated with stamped central medallions of leather onlay decorated with floral and vegetal motifs, some staining, edges of spine crudely repaired, with flap
217 x 160 mm.

Footnotes

Another treatise on the magical properties of the letters and Divine Names, dated 8th April 1764, is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. See A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Dublin 1963, vol. VI, pp. 6-7, no. 4516. See also Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 704.

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