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The colophon of this manuscript states that the scribe copied it from an earlier copy of the work dated AH 359/969 AD.
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COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN BANDALAR (?) BIN MUHAMMAD, IRAQ OR IRAN, DATED DHU'L HIJJA AH 579/MARCH-APRIL 1184 AD
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ABU JA'FAR MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI BIN HUSAYN BIN MUSA BIN BABAWIYA (D. AH 365/1004-05 AD): MAN LA YAHDURAHU AL-FAQIH
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN BANDALAR (?) BIN MUHAMMAD, IRAQ OR IRAN, DATED DHU'L HIJJA AH 579/MARCH-APRIL 1184 AD
Volume II of the work on jurisprudence, Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 96ff. each with 24ll. of neat sepia naskh, later catchwords on the first nineteen pages, two gold and polychrome illuminated panels laid down from another manuscript, one portrait of a seated elderly man added later, inscription on the opening folio states that the scribe was also the owner, slight waterstaining, a few crude repairs, brown worn morocco with flap
Folio 9 7/8 x 6 3/8in. (24.9 x 16.4cm.)
COPIED BY MUHAMMAD BIN BANDALAR (?) BIN MUHAMMAD, IRAQ OR IRAN, DATED DHU'L HIJJA AH 579/MARCH-APRIL 1184 AD
Volume II of the work on jurisprudence, Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 96ff. each with 24ll. of neat sepia naskh, later catchwords on the first nineteen pages, two gold and polychrome illuminated panels laid down from another manuscript, one portrait of a seated elderly man added later, inscription on the opening folio states that the scribe was also the owner, slight waterstaining, a few crude repairs, brown worn morocco with flap
Folio 9 7/8 x 6 3/8in. (24.9 x 16.4cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's, 26 April 1982, lot 43
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