A COMPENDIUM OF RELIGIOUS TREATISES

MAMLUCK SYRIA OR POSSIBLY EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY

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A COMPENDIUM OF RELIGIOUS TREATISES
MAMLUCK SYRIA OR POSSIBLY EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
Comprising Muhy al-Din Abu Zakariya Yahya bin Sharaf bin Hassan bin Husayn bin Muhammad al-Nawawi's Kitab al-arba'in fi mabani al-islam wa qawa'id al-ahkam, a treatise on hadith and al-Busiri's Al-Burda fi madh al-nabi, Arabic manuscript on paper, 36ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, titles in large gold thuluth script outlined in black, some words picked out in red, opening folio with title within a black-outlined gold cartouche, with later added owner's notes, with added dates of AH 730, AH 811 and AH 991, in damaged Mamluk brown morocco binding
Folio 6 7/8 x 4¾in. (17.4 x 12cm.)

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Ownership inscriptions on the first folio gives the name of Ahmad bin Sidq al-Humsi (from Homs) al-Shafi'i, of Muhammad Sadr (?) al-Din bin al-Hajj in Aleppo and the name of Shihab al-Din known as Ibn [..] al-Dallal (middleman) in the souk of [..].

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