MAMLUK SYRIA OR EGYPT, SECOND HALF 13TH/14TH CENTURY

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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D. 870 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH
MAMLUK SYRIA OR EGYPT, SECOND HALF 13TH/14TH CENTURY
A canonical collection of Traditions, vol.II of XXX, Arabic manuscript on paper, ...ff., each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, occasional words and titles in red, sepia and yellow script, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, final folios with copious later added notes, text starting abruptly with the section on bathing (al-ghusl) and ends stating that this is the end of juz' II of 30 parts which will be followed by juz' III, and that the text will begin with the section on al-masajid (prayer halls), in north African stamped and gilt reddish morocco binding with flap, loose in binding, incomplete at beginning
Folio 8 5/8 x 6 ½in. (21.8 x 16.3cm.)

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The following dates can be found in the various inscriptions added to the final folios AH 854, 865, 869, 878, 874 and 883.

There are 17 copies of this work in the Chester Beatty Library, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Dublin, 1955, p. 31, no. 3080. There are 28 copies of this work in the British Library of which the earliest copy is dated AH 581 /1185 AD, see C. Baker (editor) Subject Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, B, pp.30-31. There are two copies of this work in the John Rylands Library, see A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts, Manchester, 1934, pp. 205-209, nos. 125-126. See Brockelmann: G I, 157; S I, 260.

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