ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D.870 AD): AL-SAHIH
ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D.870 AD): AL-SAHIH

MOROCCO, THURSDAY 21 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 1321/9 MARCH 1904 AD

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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D.870 AD): AL-SAHIH
MOROCCO, THURSDAY 21 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 1321/9 MARCH 1904 AD
Volume III of this major work on hadith, Arabic manuscript on coloured paper, 185ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black maghribi script, titles in larger red, blue or black script, some words picked out in gold and outlined in black, text within red and blue double rules, with occasional marginal comments, catchwords, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, colophon similarly illuminated, first folio possibly lacking, preceded with tables, in original tooled and gilt red morocco binding with flap and pink paper doublures, the flap's reverse tooled and gilt with floral lattice, in very good condition
Text panel 8¾ x 5¾in. (22 x 14.7cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 9 3/8in. (31.3 x 23.7cm.)

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