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Lot 179

'Yiyaz bin Musa ibn 'Yiyaz al-Yahsabi (d. AH 544/AD 1149), Al-Shifa bi-ta'rif huquq al-mustafa, a work based on the traditions relating to the prerogatives, the good manners, the miracles, the names and the divine mission of the Prophet
Ottoman Turkey, 18th Century

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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'Yiyaz bin Musa ibn 'Yiyaz al-Yahsabi (d. AH 544/AD 1149), Al-Shifa bi-ta'rif huquq al-mustafa, a work based on the traditions relating to the prerogatives, the good manners, the miracles, the names and the divine mission of the Prophet
Ottoman Turkey, 18th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 188 leaves, 23 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink, significant words picked out in red, inner margins ruled in red, black and gold, catchwords in wide outer margins, one fine illuminated headpiece in colours and gold probably excised from a 16th Century manuscript, contemporary brown morocco with cornerpieces and outer borders tooled in gold, slightly worn, with flap
212 x 146 mm.

Footnotes

Another copy of this text is in the John Rylands Library: see A. Mingana, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1934, no. 304, p. 481.

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