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KAMAL AL-DIN ABU SALIM MUHAMMAD IBN TALHAH AL-NASIBI AL-'ADAWI (D. AH 652/1254 AD): AL-DURR AL-MUNAZZAM FI ISM AL-'AZAM

NORTH AFRICA, AH 996/1587-88 AD

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KAMAL AL-DIN ABU SALIM MUHAMMAD IBN TALHAH AL-NASIBI AL-'ADAWI (D. AH 652/1254 AD): AL-DURR AL-MUNAZZAM FI ISM AL-'AZAM
North Africa, AH 996/1587-88 AD
On divination, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 60ff. with 27ll. of black maghribi, titles in red, numerous small watercolour drawings and other diagrams in red throughout the text, some text divided into two columns, final folio dated 996, water staining, occasional old repairs, in dark brown morocco binding with flap composed of 14th/15th century boards with restoration
Folio 11½ x 7¾in. (29 x 20cm.)

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Lot Essay

This is a work of divination based on characters written on the skin of a camel by 'Ali. The drawings are provincial Ottoman in character.
For this work, GAL, I, p. 463, SI, p. 838-9.

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