ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD AL-NAFZAWI (FL. FIRST HALF 15TH C.): AL-RAWD AL-'ATI FI NUZHAT AL-KHATIR

MAGHREB, 19TH CENTURY

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ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD AL-NAFZAWI (FL. FIRST HALF 15TH C.): AL-RAWD AL-'ATI FI NUZHAT AL-KHATIR
MAGHREB, 19TH CENTURY
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight, a renowned manual on sexuality, Arabic manuscript on paper, 43ff., some phrases and words picked out in red and green, catchwords, some waterstaining, in 19th century stamped reddish morocco binding
Folio 8¾ x 6 3/8in. (22.3 x 16.3cm.)

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This work, composed circa 1420 AD in Tunisia for the Hafsid ruler Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Mutawwakil, is a well-known treatise on the qualities men and women should have to be attractive as well as a guide on sexual practices. It was first translated in English, from French by Burton as "The Perfumed Garden" in 1886.

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