Lot 53
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ABU AL-QASIM 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN 'ALI BIN ABI SADIQ AL-NISHAPURI (D. AFTER 460/1068 AD): SHARH KITAB AL-FUSUL L'IBQARAT
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ABU AL-QASIM 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN 'ALI BIN ABI SADIQ AL-NISHAPURI (D. AFTER 460/1068 AD): SHARH KITAB AL-FUSUL L'IBQARAT

SELJUK ANATOLIA, 12TH/13TH CENTURY

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ABU AL-QASIM 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN 'ALI BIN ABI SADIQ AL-NISHAPURI (D. AFTER 460/1068 AD): SHARH KITAB AL-FUSUL L'IBQARAT
SELJUK ANATOLIA, 12TH/13TH CENTURY
A commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Arabic manuscript on paper, 133ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of loose sepia naskh, important words and phrases picked out in red, occasional marginal notes, later numbering in the lower margins and upper corners, first folio replaced and laid down on card, in repaired brown morocco with stamped central medallion and a border of cartouches
Folio 9½ x 6in. (23.8 x 15.2cm.)
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According to Emilie Savage-Smith, this commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, composed around AH 460/1068 AD, consists of seven maqalahs and khatimah. It proved to be one of the most popular and widely read of all the numerous commentaries on the Aphorisms. Two other copies are known, the first dateable to the 13th/14th century. The second, dated Shaban AH 924/August-September 1518 AD, is in the Bodleian Library (Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I, Oxford, 2011, nos.3A and 3B, pp.9-12).

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