THREE OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING A TREATISE OF ARABIC
Ottoman Turkey and Provinces, 18th and 19th centuries

THREE OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING A TREATISE OF ARABIC
Ottoman Turkey and Provinces, 18th and 19th centuries

Arabic manuscripts on paper, comprising a compendium in a number of hands, 41ff., each folio with 17ll. of black ink naskh script, one sharh inscribed ‘the time of sunrise, on Thursday in the month of Rabi’ Ul Akhar, written by Uthman bin Umar bin Ahmad Afsoui, in the noble city of the Companions of the Cave (Damascus), 1157 AH (May-June 1744 AD)’, in an 18th-century tooled brown calf flapped binding, the folio 21cm x 15.2cm; a Zubdat Al-Osul by Sheikh Bahai’, 170ff., plus two fly leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black ink naskh script, significant words and selected marks in red, catchwords, signed by Abd ul-Qani, certain sections in Persian, including an inscription relating to the text by Muhaqiq al-Mazandarani Mowlana Mulla Mohammad Saleh, in blind-tooled tan calf binding, the folio 15cm x 10.5cm; and a treatise and lexicon of the Arabic language, Sawabiq al Ni’am wa Nawabiq al Hikam, 256ff. plus two fly leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black ink nasta’liq script, with two pale green folios, significant words in red, set within red rules, in blind-tooled dark brown morocco binding, the text panel 13.2cm x 8.8cm, the folio 18cm x 13.3cm.

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