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Lot Essay
The colophon states that the work was completed by Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Nasir on 16th Muharram AH 1255/1 April 1839 AD from a copy completed on 22 Dhu’l-Qa’da AH 1185/ 26 February 1772 AD.
A note in French, written in a nineteenth-century hand, is added on a fly leaf. It describes the manuscript as a 'treatise on general and religious morality, very famous and which has never ceased to be read since it was written in AH 884/1479 AD'. Although it notes that other copies of the manuscript are kept in libraries in Cairo, Paris, Gotha, and Berlin, the writer also remarks that the author had a reputation for being insufficiently critical of his source material, and accepting without question suspect or fraudulent hadith.
A note in French, written in a nineteenth-century hand, is added on a fly leaf. It describes the manuscript as a 'treatise on general and religious morality, very famous and which has never ceased to be read since it was written in AH 884/1479 AD'. Although it notes that other copies of the manuscript are kept in libraries in Cairo, Paris, Gotha, and Berlin, the writer also remarks that the author had a reputation for being insufficiently critical of his source material, and accepting without question suspect or fraudulent hadith.