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MOROCCO, DATED AH 1322/1904-5 AD
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MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D. 870 AD): AL-JAMI' AL-SAHIH
MOROCCO, DATED AH 1322/1904-5 AD
The fourth section of this famous collection of hadith, Arabic manuscript on variously coloured paper, 174ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black maghribi script, titles and some words picked out in red and blue, some words in gold outlined in black, titles within gold cartouches in gold script outlined in black and filled in with body colours and issuing a marginal medallion, text within red and blue rules, with catchwords, opening folio with black-ruled gold frame and gold and polychrome illuminated margins colophon heavily illuminated in gold and polychrome, folios with original pagination, in probably original gilt and stamped red morocco binding with flap, the flap's doublure with gilt floral lattice, in very good condition overall
Text panel 8¾ x 5 7/8in. (22.3 x 14.8cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 9in. (31.4 x 22.8cm.)
MOROCCO, DATED AH 1322/1904-5 AD
The fourth section of this famous collection of hadith, Arabic manuscript on variously coloured paper, 174ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black maghribi script, titles and some words picked out in red and blue, some words in gold outlined in black, titles within gold cartouches in gold script outlined in black and filled in with body colours and issuing a marginal medallion, text within red and blue rules, with catchwords, opening folio with black-ruled gold frame and gold and polychrome illuminated margins colophon heavily illuminated in gold and polychrome, folios with original pagination, in probably original gilt and stamped red morocco binding with flap, the flap's doublure with gilt floral lattice, in very good condition overall
Text panel 8¾ x 5 7/8in. (22.3 x 14.8cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 9in. (31.4 x 22.8cm.)