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ABU AL-MUNA DA'UD IBN ABI NASR IBN HAFFAZ AL-KOHEN (FL. AH 658/1260 AD): MINHAJ AL-DUKKAN

MAMLUK EGYPT OR SYRIA, AH 25 JUMADA II 886/30 AUGUST 1481 AD

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ABU AL-MUNA DA'UD IBN ABI NASR IBN HAFFAZ AL-KOHEN (FL. AH 658/1260 AD): MINHAJ AL-DUKKAN
Mamluk Egypt or Syria, AH 25 Jumada II 886/30 August 1481 AD
On medicine, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 277ff. with 15ll. of black naskh, titles in larger script in red, opening gold illuminated shamsa folio with title of work, final folio with colophon signed Muhammad ibn Isma'il and dated 25 Jumada II 886, marginal annotations, light staining and worm damage, in tan morocco binding with gold tooled decoration
Folio 10 x 6¾ in (25.6 x 17.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

This is a pharmacopaeia giving simple and compound herbal medicines consisting of medicinal powders and syrups divided into 25 chapters.
The author was active in Cairo in the middle of the 7th/13th century.
(Brockelmann, C.: GAL, I, p. 492; SI, p. 897.)

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