拍品 6
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A RARE BOTANICAL TREATISE ON JASMINE, LILY AND SPICIES, MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI IBN AL-BARRAQ AL-ANDALUSI'S (D. 1200 AD) AFLAH AL-SAWSAN WA AL-YASMIN WA AL-BAHAR
A RARE BOTANICAL TREATISE ON JASMINE, LILY AND SPICIES, MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI IBN AL-BARRAQ AL-ANDALUSI'S (D. 1200 AD) AFLAH AL-SAWSAN WA AL-YASMIN WA AL-BAHAR

ANDALUSIA OR NEAR EAST, 13TH CENTURY

细节
A RARE BOTANICAL TREATISE ON JASMINE, LILY AND SPICIES, MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI IBN AL-BARRAQ AL-ANDALUSI'S (D. 1200 AD) AFLAH AL-SAWSAN WA AL-YASMIN WA AL-BAHAR
ANDALUSIA OR NEAR EAST, 13TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, catchwords, colophon with title, name of the author and date of end of Shawal AH 690/October 1291 AD, additional notes in Chagatai giving recipies against bone-ache, in modern binding
8 x 5 3/8in. (20.1 x 13.7cm.)

拍品专文

This treatise compiles quotes by a large number of Andalusian poets and physicians, most of them from the 10th and 11th century AD. The following authors can be found in the text: Ibn Bassal (d. 1085 AD), Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli (d. 1030 AD), Ibn Burd (d. 1053 AD), Ibn al-Haddad (d. 1087 AD), Ibn Samhun (d. 1002 AD), Ishaq bin 'Imran (fl. 10th c.), Ibn Wahshiya (fl. 9th c.), Al-Mu'tamad Ibn 'Abbad, ruler of Seville (d. 1095), as well as others whose identity is difficult to establish.