ABU BAKR BIN AL-MUNDHIR BADR AL-DIN AL-BAYTAR (FL. 14TH CENTURY): KITAB KASHIF AL-WAYL FI MA'RIFAT WA 'ILAJ AMRAD AL-KHAYL

EGYPT, DATED DHU AL-QA'DA AH 1167/AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1754 AD

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ABU BAKR BIN AL-MUNDHIR BADR AL-DIN AL-BAYTAR (FL. 14TH CENTURY): KITAB KASHIF AL-WAYL FI MA'RIFAT WA 'ILAJ AMRAD AL-KHAYL
EGYPT, DATED DHU AL-QA'DA AH 1167/AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1754 AD
Identification of Troubles in Recognizing Diseases of Horses, a famous work on hippiatry composed for Sultan Qala'un, Arabic manuscript on paper, 73ff. as numbered plus two pages of index, each folio with 18ll. of black cursory naskh script, titles and some words picked out in red, with occasional marginal notes and catchwords, colophon dated, final folio with later added notes
Folio 8 3/8 x 6in. (21.2 x 15.2cm.)

Lot Essay

Abu Bakr bin al-Mundhir al-Baytar was chief veterinarian at the court of the Mamluk Sultan al-Mansur bin Qala'un, who ruled three times with intervals (last rule 1309-1340) (The Treasure of Oriental Manuscripts, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Unesco, 2012, p.43). However, a note of the first of folio of the present work indicates that it was composed for Sultan Qala'un, al-Mansur bin Qala'un's father.

For another lot by this author, see lot 783 in this sale.

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