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QUTB AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-RAZI' AL-TAHTANI (D.1364-65 AD): LAWAMI' AL-ASRAR 'ALA SHARH MATALI' AL-ANWAR

MAMLUK PROVINCES, DATED AH 860/1455-56 AD

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QUTB AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-RAZI' AL-TAHTANI (D.1364-65 AD): LAWAMI' AL-ASRAR 'ALA SHARH MATALI' AL-ANWAR
MAMLUK PROVINCES, DATED AH 860/1455-56 AD
An early copy of Siraj al-Din Mahmud bin Abi Bakr bin Ahmad al-Urmawi's Matali’ al-anwar, on logic and philosophy, Arabic manuscript on light cream burnished paper, 178ff. each folio with 25ll. of black naskh, titles, important words and phrases picked out in red, dated colophon, occasional marginal notes, catchwords, the flyleaves with copious later notes, some loose folios, in dark brown Mamluk morocco with blind and gilt stamped central medallion and cross shaped designs, leather doublures
Folio 10 3/8 x 7 ¼in. (27.3 x 18.3cm.)

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Siraj al-Din Mahmud bin Abi Bakr bin Ahmad al-Urmawi was the original author of Matali’ al-anwar (b. 1198 AD). He studied in Mosul and died in Konya in AH 682/1283 AD. There are five other known copies of this commentary, one of which is dated AH 881/1476-77 AD, in the British Library (see Stocks, 2001, p.204, G and Brockelmann, GAL, G, II, 209; S, I, 743, 848).

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