Lot Essay
This manuscript is copied by the same scribe as lot 260 in this sale. The two works were originally bound together.
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NORTH AFRICA, DATED END OF SHA’BAN AH 865/JUNE 1461 AD
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MUHAMMAD BIN SA’DUN BIN ‘ALI BIN BILAL AL-QARAWANI (D.486 AD): KITAB AL-MIFTAH WA IRTIYAH AL-ARWAH
NORTH AFRICA, DATED END OF SHA’BAN AH 865/JUNE 1461 AD
On the education of women and children, Arabic manuscript on paper, 151ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black rounded maghribi script, important words in larger script or in red, some text arranged in two columns, colophon dated, later pagination in pencil, occasional marginal notes, modern repairs, in tooled and stamped red morocco binding
Folio 7 3/8 x 5 ¾in. (18.8 x 13.6cm.)
NORTH AFRICA, DATED END OF SHA’BAN AH 865/JUNE 1461 AD
On the education of women and children, Arabic manuscript on paper, 151ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black rounded maghribi script, important words in larger script or in red, some text arranged in two columns, colophon dated, later pagination in pencil, occasional marginal notes, modern repairs, in tooled and stamped red morocco binding
Folio 7 3/8 x 5 ¾in. (18.8 x 13.6cm.)
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