AHMAD BIN 'ALI AL-MANINI: SHARH AL-YAMINI AL-MUSAMMA BI AL-FATH AL-WAHBI
AHMAD BIN 'ALI AL-MANINI: SHARH AL-YAMINI AL-MUSAMMA BI AL-FATH AL-WAHBI

SIGNED IBRAHIM B. 'ABD AL-RAHMAN KNOWN AS IBN AL-HAKIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 19 SHA'BAN AH 1153/1 NOVEMBER 1740 AD

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AHMAD BIN 'ALI AL-MANINI: SHARH AL-YAMINI AL-MUSAMMA BI AL-FATH AL-WAHBI
SIGNED IBRAHIM B. 'ABD AL-RAHMAN KNOWN AS IBN AL-HAKIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 19 SHA'BAN AH 1153/1 NOVEMBER 1740 AD
Copied and corrected from the author's copy for the library of 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Safar Jilani, a commentary on al-'Utbi's Kitab al-Yamini, a laudatory biography of the Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud, Arabic manuscript on paper, 365ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 37ll. of black and red naskh within gold and black rules, catchwords, opening bifolio with illuminated heading and gold floral margins, colophon signed, dated and dedicated
Text panel 8¾ x 3¾in. (22.3 x 9.4cm.); folio 11¾ x 6 7/8in. (29.8 x 17.4cm.)

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