A treatise on Hadith, Mamluk Egypt, dated 4 Jumada II...
A treatise on Hadith, Mamluk Egypt, dated 4 Jumada II 690AH/4 JUNE 1291AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 132ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black naskh script, chapter titles and occasional words picked out in red, with marginal notes, catchwords, colophon signed, opening folio with later Ottoman owners' notes, the first folio a 19th century replacement, in repaired Mamluk tooled brown morocco binding with flap, occasional seal impressions, folio 27.8 x 21.5cm. Provenance: Christie's, South Kensington, 10 October 2014, lot 260.
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A treatise on Hadith, Mamluk Egypt, dated 4 Jumada II 690AH/4 JUNE 1291AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 132ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black naskh script, chapter titles and occasional words picked out in red, with marginal notes, catchwords, colophon signed, opening folio with later Ottoman owners' notes, the first folio a 19th century replacement, in repaired Mamluk tooled brown morocco binding with flap, occasional seal impressions, folio 27.8 x 21.5cm. Provenance: Christie's, South Kensington, 10 October 2014, lot 260.
