Lot 95
95
ABU MANSUR 'ABD AL-MALIK IBN MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-THA'ALIBI AL-NISHAPURI (AH 350-429/961-1038 AD): FIQH AL-LUGHA WA SIRR AL-'ARABIYA
ABU MANSUR 'ABD AL-MALIK IBN MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-THA'ALIBI AL-NISHAPURI (AH 350-429/961-1038 AD): FIQH AL-LUGHA WA SIRR AL-'ARABIYA

NEAR EAST, DATED MUHARRAM AH 400/AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1009 AD

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ABU MANSUR 'ABD AL-MALIK IBN MUHAMMAD IBN ISMA'IL AL-THA'ALIBI AL-NISHAPURI (AH 350-429/961-1038 AD): FIQH AL-LUGHA WA SIRR AL-'ARABIYA
NEAR EAST, DATED MUHARRAM AH 400/AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1009 AD
On Arabic language, a glossary of synonyms, Arabic manuscript on paper, 73ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of sepia naskh verging on maghribi, important words and phrases in larger script, first folio split, and each recto with title and later owner's notes, colophon with date, later owner's note below giving a date of a later reading of the text, the two final folios with another owner's inscription, in brown morocco with flap, each board with stamped central medallion filled with strapwork and geometric outer borders, brown morocco doublures with stamped quatrefoil doublures in each corner
Folio 9 7/8 x 6½in. (24.9 x 16.9cm.)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript was copied in 1009-10 AD, during the lifetime of the author al-Tha'alibi who died in 1038 AD. It is therefore an early copy of the work.

For a copy of the work dated Dhu'l Hijja AH 612/March-April 1216 AD, see Arberry, The Chester Beatty Library - A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vol. VI, Dublin, 1963, no.4823, p.107.

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