ABU HAFS UMAR AL-NASIFI (1067-1142): MANZUMAH FI AL-KHILAFAT

MAMLUK EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY

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ABU HAFS UMAR AL-NASIFI (1067-1142): MANZUMAH FI AL-KHILAFAT
MAMLUK EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 136ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh arranged in two columns, catchwords, section headings in brown naskh, occasional headings in grey thuluth reserved against gold band with marginal medallion, the opening folio with blue and gold illuminated title page, the first folios with copious marginal annotation, in contemporaneous gilt and tooled leather binding, the doublures paper
Folio 8 x 5 3⁄8in. (20.2 x 13.5cm.)

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Hafs ‘Umar ibn Muhammad, ibn Ahmad Luqman al-Nasafi, was a highly celebrated writer and a renowned commentator on the Qur'an, as documented in C. Brockelmann's GAL, I.758. He passed away in Samarqand in the year 1142 AD. A separate edition of Mantumat fi'l-khilaf can be found today in the al-Azhar library in Cairo.

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