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A later copy of this work dated 1838 AD is in the Islamic Art Museum, Doha (Add MS 12187).
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NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
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DA'UD BIN 'UMAR AL-ANTAKI (D. 1599 AD): TADHKIRA ULI AL-ALBAB WA AL-JAMI' LI AL-'AJAB AL-'UJAB
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Vol. IV of this medical encyclopaedia, 121ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 27ll. of sepia maghribi script, important words and titles in larger black, blue and red script, text within red rules, opening folio with illuminated title cartouche in gold and polychrome, modern pagination, with catchwords, incomplete at end, p.87 (as numbered) giving the name of another work by al-Antaki, in gilt stamped morocco
Text panel 8 3/8 x 5 1/8in. (21.2 x 13cm.); folio 11 1/8 x 8in. (28.3 x 20.4cm.)
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Vol. IV of this medical encyclopaedia, 121ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 27ll. of sepia maghribi script, important words and titles in larger black, blue and red script, text within red rules, opening folio with illuminated title cartouche in gold and polychrome, modern pagination, with catchwords, incomplete at end, p.87 (as numbered) giving the name of another work by al-Antaki, in gilt stamped morocco
Text panel 8 3/8 x 5 1/8in. (21.2 x 13cm.); folio 11 1/8 x 8in. (28.3 x 20.4cm.)
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