A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS
A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS

OTTOMAN PROVINCES, 16TH-19TH CENTURY

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A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS
OTTOMAN PROVINCES, 16TH-19TH CENTURY
Mostly Arabic manuscripts, including Mahmud bin Hasan al-Maghnisi's Mughni al-tullab, a commentary on Abhari's Isagogè, the work on logics by Porphyry, 58ff., dated AH 1230, 19th century Moroccan astronomical tables, 79ff., with their commentary, a work on language by Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani (d. 1390 AD), copied in Ask Shehr in the madrasa Qara Mustafa Basha and dated Tuesday 10 Shawal AH 1069, a Persian work on Arabic language, 98ff., in nasta'liq script with fine red comments in shikasteh script, dated AH (11)22, a very early copy of Muhammad Amin bin 'Abidin's (d. 1252 AH) Al-Durr al-mukhtar fi sharh tanwir al-absar, on Hanafi fiqh, 225ff., dated AH 1225, a copy of Sharh athbat al-wajib, by al-Dawani, 84ff., dated AH 1084, a copy of al-Risala al-Shamsiya, possibly by Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. ca 1276 AD), 79ff., copied in the madrasa Ya'qub Agah in Qastamuni in AH 1168, all in modern bindings, the majority in good condition (33)

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