Lot 44
  • 44

Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik al-Khawlani al-Sharithi, an anthology of poetry, Spain or North Africa, dated 889 AH/1484 AD

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • ink on paper
Arabic manuscript on watermaked paper, 113 leaves, plus 5 flyleaves, 17 lines to the page, written in sepia Maghribi script, titles and important words in red or gold outlined in sepia, or black or blue outlined in red, replacement folios between ff.13-32, later added notes to the ending, in brown morocco binding, with flap

Condition

In overall good condition, the margins have been trimmed and are clean overall, with occasional notes in black, occasional paper repairs to the leaves and edges, water staining and smudges to the ink throughout the pages, one bifolium in the middle of the manuscript with considerable losses and holes which have been repaired and patched with paper and tape, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

The colophon states that the author completed this work in the middle of the month Rajab 651 AH/September 1253 AD. A later added title of f.1a states that the title of the manuscript is Kitab ma’adin al-dhahab fi funun al-adab, not recorded in Brocklemann.