SHARAF AL-DIN ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD B. HASSAN AL-BUSIRI (D.1296-97 AD), QASIDA AL-BURDA, EGYPT OR NEAR EAST, DATED 846 AH/1442-43 AD

SHARAF AL-DIN ABU 'ABDULLAH MUHAMMAD B. HASSAN AL-BUSIRI (D.1296-97 AD), QASIDA AL-BURDA, EGYPT OR NEAR EAST, DATED 846 AH/1442-43 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 28 leaves, plus 1 fly-leaf, 15 lines to the page, the fourth, ninth, and fourteenth in red naskh running diagonally, fifth, tenth and last written in elegant black or gold muhaqqaq, the intervening lines in neat naskh, f.1a and f.28b with a polychrome and gold shamsa, f.1b with an illuminated heading, in brown gilt leather binding, with flap

34.5 by 26.2cm.

Condition Report:
The margins restored and cropped, possibly incomplete, one leaf replaced, losses to the illumination, smudges and holes, as viewed.

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