Lot Essay
This manuscript is copied by the same scribe as lot 262 in this sale. The two works were originally bound together.
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NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 1460 AD
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ABU BAKR BIN YAHYA AL-KHARRAT: A TREATISE ON CHEMISTRY
NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 1460 AD
On chemistry and dyes, Arabic manuscript on paper, 11ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 19ll. of sepia maghribi script arranged in two columns, titles in larger red or blue script, some verses framed by small yellow medallions, occasional marginal notes, with later added notes at beginning and end, in reused Ottoman stamped morocco binding
Folio 7 3/8 x 5 ½in. (18.7 x 14cm.)
NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 1460 AD
On chemistry and dyes, Arabic manuscript on paper, 11ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 19ll. of sepia maghribi script arranged in two columns, titles in larger red or blue script, some verses framed by small yellow medallions, occasional marginal notes, with later added notes at beginning and end, in reused Ottoman stamped morocco binding
Folio 7 3/8 x 5 ½in. (18.7 x 14cm.)
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