Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad bin Muhammad bin 'Ali bin Fulaita al-Katib al-Yamani (d.131 AH/845 AD) Rushd al-labib ila mu'asharat al-habib ('The Enlightenment of the Intelligent on the Companionship of the Beloved'), A manual of sexual hygiene, Near East, dated 853 AH/1449 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 117 leaves plus a flyleaf, 15-17 lines to the page, written in Naskh script in black ink, headings and key words picked out in red, catchwords, leather binding, with flap

In reasonably overall good condition, binding is separated from manuscript, paper repairs to some leaves, some areas of waterstaining, as viewed.
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Another copy dated to the fifteenth century is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see A.J. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vol.I, Dublin, 1955, p.34, no.3088.

 

Brockelmann, I, 232; Suppl.I, 416.