Lot Essay
A very similar copy of the Taqwim al-Adwiya, dated 20 Shawwal AH 1218/2 February 1804 AD, is published in Bernard Quaritch, Islamic Manuscripts, Catalogue 1366, 2008, item T.21.
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MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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YUHANNA BIN BAKHTISHU (FL. 9TH C. AD): KITAB AL-ADWIYA
MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
A medical treatise composed in AH 231 by this renowned author, beginning with an introduction and followed by tables presenting the natural and herbal remedies in alphabetical order, Arabic manuscript on paper, 63ff. (as numbered) plus 2 fly-leaves, each with 21ll. of sepia maghribi script, some words in red, first folio with added notes, incomplete at end, in contemporaneous gilt stamped red morocco binding
Tables 7 5/8 x 5 7/8in. (19.6 x 15cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (29 x 21.2cm)
MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
A medical treatise composed in AH 231 by this renowned author, beginning with an introduction and followed by tables presenting the natural and herbal remedies in alphabetical order, Arabic manuscript on paper, 63ff. (as numbered) plus 2 fly-leaves, each with 21ll. of sepia maghribi script, some words in red, first folio with added notes, incomplete at end, in contemporaneous gilt stamped red morocco binding
Tables 7 5/8 x 5 7/8in. (19.6 x 15cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (29 x 21.2cm)