Lot 60
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NUR AL-DIN ABU'L-HASAN 'ALI BIN 'ABDULLAH BIN AHMAD AL-HASANI AL-SHAFI'I, KNOWN AS AL-SAMHUDI (D. 1506 AD): KITAB KHULASAT AL-WAFA BI- AKHBAR AL-MUSTAFA
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NUR AL-DIN ABU'L-HASAN 'ALI BIN 'ABDULLAH BIN AHMAD AL-HASANI AL-SHAFI'I, KNOWN AS AL-SAMHUDI (D. 1506 AD): KITAB KHULASAT AL-WAFA BI- AKHBAR AL-MUSTAFA

MAMLUK EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY

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NUR AL-DIN ABU'L-HASAN 'ALI BIN 'ABDULLAH BIN AHMAD AL-HASANI AL-SHAFI'I, KNOWN AS AL-SAMHUDI (D. 1506 AD): KITAB KHULASAT AL-WAFA BI- AKHBAR AL-MUSTAFA
MAMLUK EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY
A history of the holy city of Medina, abridged by al-Samhudi from his larger work Wafa' al-wafa, Arabic manuscript on paper, 128ff. each folio with 25ll. of black naskh script, titles and important words in red, catchwords, occasional marginal notes, two diagrams of the Tombs of the Prophet and Masjid al-Nabawi, colophon signed, copious later notes to the fly-leaves, in stamped brown morocco binding
Folio 8 3/8 x 6in. (21.3 x 15cm.)
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An ownership inscription on the title page is dated AH 1078/1667-68 AD
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Al-Samhudi was born in Samhud in Upper Egypt in AH 844/1440-1441 AD. He lived in Medina where he died in AH 911/1505-1506 AD.

The colophon of this manuscript states that the author completed the composition of this work on 5 Shawwal AH 893/1487-88 AD. A copy written in Medina and dated AH 1203/1788-89 AD is in the British Library (Or.4632; C. Rieu, Supplement of the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum, Hildesheim, 2013 reprint, pp.827-828, no.1284). For more information see C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, Leiden, 1943, II., p.174, Suppl. I., 631; II., 223).

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