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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN SA'ID AL-MARGHITI AL-SUSI (D. 1678 AD ): AL-MUMTI' FI SHARH AL-MUQNI'

PROBABLY MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY CENTURY

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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD BIN SA'ID AL-MARGHITI AL-SUSI (D. 1678 AD ): AL-MUMTI' FI SHARH AL-MUQNI'
PROBABLY MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY CENTURY
A commentary on al- Marghithi’s al-Muqni’ fi ‘ilm al-muqri’, a treatise on Timekeeping, Arabic manuscript on paper, ...ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of small brown maghribi script, titles and occasional words in larger coloured maghribi script, text within double red rules, some marginal comments, including diagrams, opening folio with illuminated title headpiece, in 19th century gilt red morocco binding
Text panel 6 ¼ x 4 1/8in. (15.9 x 10.4cm.); folio 8 ½ x 6in. (21.7 x 15.2cm.)

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Another copy of this work sold at Bonham's, 4 October 2011, lot 55. Two other copies dated AH 1040/1630 AD and AH 1188/1774 AD are in the British Library: see C. Baker (ed.), Subject Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London 2001, p. 380, M5. The title of both copies reads: Al-Mumti' fi sharh al-muqni' fi 'ilm Abi al-Muqri. See also C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Leiden/New York, G II, 463; Suppl. II, 707. A further two copies of this work, al-Muqti' (al-Mumti') fi sharh al-muqni', 'Progress (Delivering Pleasure) in the Commentary on 'Sufficient', are in Cairo and Vienna. See B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7th-19th C), Istanbul 2003, p. 371, no. 1166.

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