Kitab al-Bayan (A commentary on Shi'a Jurispudence), signed by Ali bin Shahib Al-Din, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, dated Jumada II 973 AH (December 1565/January 1566 AD)]

Kitab al-Bayan (A commentary on Shi'a Jurispudence), signed by Ali bin Shahib Al-Din, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia, dated Jumada II 973 AH (December 1565/January 1566 AD)]

single volume, 216 leaves (plus one endleaf), single column, 14 lines of black naskh, key words in red, catchwords, contemporary and later commentaries to the margins throughout, ink ownership inscriptions and stamps to endpapers, Persian export stamps to preliminary and penultimate leaves, paper book label to upper pastedown, spine cracked with some leaves loose, 185 by 120mm.; contemporary blind-stamped morocco binding without flap, spine and extremities repaired with later morocco, worn, paper label taped to spine

Provenance: from the Mohamed Makiya collection (their 129/100), and previously in the Hagop Kevorkian library; sold Sothebys, 18 April 1983, lot 58.

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