Lot 112
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QADI 'IYYAD BIN MUSA (D. 1149 AD): KITAB AL-SHIFA BI TA'RIF HUQUQ MUSTAFA
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QADI 'IYYAD BIN MUSA (D. 1149 AD): KITAB AL-SHIFA BI TA'RIF HUQUQ MUSTAFA

NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 19TH CENTURY

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QADI 'IYYAD BIN MUSA (D. 1149 AD): KITAB AL-SHIFA BI TA'RIF HUQUQ MUSTAFA
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, 19TH CENTURY
A popular biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, 86ff. plus eight fly-leaves, 15ll. of black maghribi to the page, titles in gold, important words picked out in red or blue, text within red and blue rules, opening bifolio with large mirrored geometric panels, first folio of text within gold text in illuminated cartouche, colophon with various names of readers, in original gilt tooled morocco with flap
Text panel 5 7/8 x 4 1/8in. (15 x 10.4cm.); folio 8 7/8 x 6in. (22.7 x 15.3cm.)
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The several names appearing on the final folio are those who read, compared or corrected this copy of Kitab al-Shifa. There are six copies of this work, the earliest of which is dated 5 Jumada II AH 767/17 February 1365 AD, in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, volume I, Dublin, 1955, p. 42, no. 3104. See C.Brockelmann, Geschichte des Arabischen Litteratur, Leiden, 1996, I. 369; suppl. I. 630..

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