Lot 5

SHIHAB AL-DIN ABU AL-FUTUH AHMAD BIN HABBASH (YA'ISH) BIN AMIRAK AL-SUHRAWARDI AL-MAQTULI (D. 1191-92 AD): HIKMAT AL-ISHRAQ

COPIED BY SHAMS BIN JAMAL AL-HATANI, POST-SELJUQ IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 14 SHABAN AH 617/TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 1220 AD

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SHIHAB AL-DIN ABU AL-FUTUH AHMAD BIN HABBASH (YA'ISH) BIN AMIRAK AL-SUHRAWARDI AL-MAQTULI (D. 1191-92 AD): HIKMAT AL-ISHRAQ
COPIED BY SHAMS BIN JAMAL AL-HATANI, POST-SELJUQ IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 14 SHABAN AH 617/TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 1220 AD
Well known treatise on theosophy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 109ff. plus 1 fly-leaf, each folio with 17ll. of sepia naskh script, important words and headings picked out in red, copious later commentary in the margins, opening folio with the basmallah written in gold within gold and blue panel issuing a medallion into the margin, the title page with similarly decorated roundel, inscription in the border gives the name of the scribe as Shams bin Jamal al-Hatani, opening folio with the name of one who is probably the same scribe but who signs Shams al-Sajani, minor worm holing, waterstaining affecting much of the manuscript, in binding with flap with marbled paper boards and brown morocco edges and spine, worn, edges splitting
Folio 9¼ x 5½in. (23.4 x 14.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Another copy of the Hikmat al-ishraq is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin 1963, Vol. V, p. 15, no. 4044). Another is noted in Brockelmann, C., Geschichte der Arabischen Literatur, Vol. I, p. 437, Supp. I, p. 782).

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