Lot Essay
This manuscript is written in Ras in Najd, now Saudi Arabia.
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RAS, ARABIA, AH 29 SH'ABAN 1047/15 JANUARY 1638 AD
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Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Yusuf al-Buni (d. AH 622/1225 AD): Shams al-ma'arif wa lata'if al-'awarif
Ras, Arabia, AH 29 Sh'aban 1047/15 January 1638 AD
On the art of divination and the use of Islamic talismans, Arabic manuscript on paper, 160ff. with 19ll. of sepia naskh, titles in red, occasional small diagrams, final folio with colophon signed al-Sayyid Hasan al-Sawwaf in Ras and dated 29 Sh'aban 1047, light staining throughout and copious marginal notes, in later cloth covered binding
Folio 8¼ x 5½ in (21 x 14cm.)
Ras, Arabia, AH 29 Sh'aban 1047/15 January 1638 AD
On the art of divination and the use of Islamic talismans, Arabic manuscript on paper, 160ff. with 19ll. of sepia naskh, titles in red, occasional small diagrams, final folio with colophon signed al-Sayyid Hasan al-Sawwaf in Ras and dated 29 Sh'aban 1047, light staining throughout and copious marginal notes, in later cloth covered binding
Folio 8¼ x 5½ in (21 x 14cm.)