MU'IN AL-DIN BIN HAJJI MUHAMMAD SHARAF AL-DIN AL-FARAHI AL-HARAVI AL-MISKIN (D. 1501-02 AD): MA'ARIJ AL-NUBUWWA

SIGNED MUHAMMAD TARSIUN BIN TURWA, SAMARQAND, DATED AH 1040 AND 1042/1630-3 AD

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MU'IN AL-DIN BIN HAJJI MUHAMMAD SHARAF AL-DIN AL-FARAHI AL-HARAVI AL-MISKIN (D. 1501-02 AD): MA'ARIJ AL-NUBUWWA
SIGNED MUHAMMAD TARSIUN BIN TURWA, SAMARQAND, DATED AH 1040 AND 1042/1630-3 AD
The life of the Prophet, Persian manuscript on paper, 382ff. plus 6 fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black nasta'liq script, some words picked out in red, text within gold and polychrome rules, with 5 illuminated headpieces, catchwords, colophons signed, two with dates of AH 1040 and Jumada II AH 1042, introduction lacking, in green morocco binding
Text panel 10 5/8 x 5¾in. (27 x 14.7cm.); folio 14 5/8 x 9 3/8in. (37.2 x 23.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The Ma'arij al-nubuwwa was compiled by Mu'in al-Din bin Hajji Muhammad Sharaf al-Din al-Farahi al-Haravi al-Miskin in Herat on 1 Rabi' al-'Awwal AH 891/8 March 1486.

The text comprises a detailed history of the Prophet Muhammad and consists of a long introduction (missing in the present copy), four chapters (rukn) and an epilogue.

A copy of the text dated AH 1137/1724-25 AD is in the Edinburgh University Library (M. Ashraful Hukk, H. Ethe & E. Robertson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library, 1925, cat. 190). In the catalogue entry the following are given as other known copies: Rieu (B.M.P. Catalogue I, p. 149 sq); Bodleian Catalogue, pp. 128-130; Aumer (Munich Catalogue, p. 100); Ethe (I.O. Catalogue, pp. 134-44); Stewart (Descriptive Catalogue, p. 22).

A copy of the Ma'arij al-nubuwwa, signed Mir Mah bin Mir 'Arab, written in Bukhara and dated AH 1019/1610-11 AD was sold in Christie's, 8 April 2008, lot 191.

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