Arts of the Islamic World and India, including Fine Rugs and Carpets

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 5. Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Azraqi al-Ghassani al-Makki (d.864-5 AD), Kitab akhbar Makkah wa ma ja'a fiha min al-athar, copied by Dawlatyar 'Atiq Hilal next to the two Holy Sanctuaries (Mecca and Medina), dated 2 Muharram 776 AH/13 June 1374 AD.

Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Azraqi al-Ghassani al-Makki (d.864-5 AD), Kitab akhbar Makkah wa ma ja'a fiha min al-athar, copied by Dawlatyar 'Atiq Hilal next to the two Holy Sanctuaries (Mecca and Medina), dated 2 Muharram 776 AH/13 June 1374 AD

Auction Closed

April 26, 01:36 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Comprising parts of volumes 1 and 2, Arabic manuscript on paper, 126 leaves, plus two fly-leaves, 23 lines to the page written in a combination of naskh and ta'liq in black ink, f.39b and f.125b with illustrations of the Ka'ba and Masjid al-Haram, f.107a with colophon signed and dated, incomplete, in stamped brown leather binding, with flap

24.2 by 16.1cm.

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