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Lot 133

Zayn-ad-Din Abdul-Wahab al-Sha'rawi, Mukhtasar Tadhkirat as Suwaydi, an abridgement of al-Tadhkirat al-Hadiya, a treatise on medicine by 'Izz-ad-Din abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Tarkhan al-Suwaidi al-Ansari (d. 1291), in two volumes bound together
Ottoman, 16th Century

8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Zayn-ad-Din Abdul-Wahab al-Sha'rawi, Mukhtasar Tadhkirat as Suwaydi, an abridgement of al-Tadhkirat al-Hadiya, a treatise on medicine by 'Izz-ad-Din abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Tarkhan al-Suwaidi al-Ansari (d. 1291), in two volumes bound together
Ottoman, 16th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 85 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in clear naskhi script in black ink, names of ailments and remedies picked out in red ink, catchwords, waterstaining affecting areas of text, crudely repaired with loss of small areas of text, browned, brown morocco with stamped central medallions decorated with intertwining serrated leaves, repaired, doublures of marbled paper
195 x 136 mm.

Footnotes

A copy of al-Suwaidi's work, dated 23 December 1385, is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vol. V, Dublin 1962, p. 61, no. 4193. See also Brockelmann, GAL, I, 493; Suppl. I, 900.

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