'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI BIN AHMAD AL-HANAFI AL-BISTAMI AL-HURUFI (D. 1454 AD): SHAMS AL-AFAQ FI 'ILM AL-HURUF AL-AWFAQ

SUB-SAHARA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ALI BIN AHMAD AL-HANAFI AL-BISTAMI AL-HURUFI (D. 1454 AD): SHAMS AL-AFAQ FI 'ILM AL-HURUF AL-AWFAQ
SUB-SAHARA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
A treatise on the magical properties of the letters, 174ff. unbound, each folio with 15ll. of rounded naskh script with Maghribi and Sudani characteristics, titles in larger coloured script, one title within an illuminated cartouche, including numerous tables and diagrams, with catchwords
Folio 8 ¼ x 6in. (20.9 x 15.3cm.)

Lot Essay

Another copy of this work dated 26th Rabi’ II AH 844 / 24th September 1440 AD is in the Chester Beatty Library, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Dublin, 1964, pp. 25-26, no. 5076.

Another copy dated AH 1127/1715 AD (ADD 7494) is in the British Library, see C. Baker (ed.), Subject Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts, London, 2001, M.2, p. 348. See also Brockelmann, GAL, II, 232; S, II, 324.

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