SAYYID 'ALI HARAZIM IBN AL-'ARABI BARRADA AL-FASI: JAWAHIR AL-MA'ANI WA...
SAYYID 'ALI HARAZIM IBN AL-'ARABI BARRADA AL-FASI: JAWAHIR AL-MA'ANI WA BULUGH AL-AMANI (THE JEWELS OF MEANINGS AND THE ATTAINMENT OF HOPES)
NORTH AFRICA, 10 JUMADA AL-AWWAL AH 1318 / 5 SEPTEMBER 1900 AD
The collected teachings of Sayyid Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad al-Tijani, Arabic manuscript on paper, 344ff. with 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. black maghribi, headings and keywords in gold, text panels within red, orange, blue and green, red and blue rules, f.161v with gold and polychrome illuminated heading of 4ll. gold text on a green ground, occasional marginal annotations, catchwords, f.1v with 8ll. gold text on a green ground in a gold and polychrome illuminated panel with the decoration extending into the margin, f.2r with similar marginal illumination, colophon signed and dated, folio opposite the colophon page with further oval medallion containing gold text surrounded by gold and polychrome illumination, gilt-stamped red morocco binding, paper doublures
Text panel 9 7⁄8 x 5in. (25 x 13.2cm.); folio 13 ¼ x 9in. (33.8 x 22.6cm.)
SAYYID 'ALI HARAZIM IBN AL-'ARABI BARRADA AL-FASI: JAWAHIR AL-MA'ANI WA BULUGH AL-AMANI (THE JEWELS OF MEANINGS AND THE ATTAINMENT OF HOPES)
NORTH AFRICA, 10 JUMADA AL-AWWAL AH 1318 / 5 SEPTEMBER 1900 AD
The collected teachings of Sayyid Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad al-Tijani, Arabic manuscript on paper, 344ff. with 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. black maghribi, headings and keywords in gold, text panels within red, orange, blue and green, red and blue rules, f.161v with gold and polychrome illuminated heading of 4ll. gold text on a green ground, occasional marginal annotations, catchwords, f.1v with 8ll. gold text on a green ground in a gold and polychrome illuminated panel with the decoration extending into the margin, f.2r with similar marginal illumination, colophon signed and dated, folio opposite the colophon page with further oval medallion containing gold text surrounded by gold and polychrome illumination, gilt-stamped red morocco binding, paper doublures
Text panel 9 7⁄8 x 5in. (25 x 13.2cm.); folio 13 ¼ x 9in. (33.8 x 22.6cm.)
