Ɵ Tazhib al-Mantiq wa al-Kalam, manuscript on paper [probably Ottoman Turkey, c. 1190 AH (1776 AD)]

Ɵ Sa'ad al-Din Massoud ibn Umar al-Taftazani, Tazhib al-Mantiq wa al-Kalam, one of there short treatises bound together, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Ottoman Turkey, one of the treatises dated 1190 AH (1776 AD)] single volume, 3 parts in one volume, 104 leaves, main text in single column, 21 lines black informal naskh, headings and overlining in red, extensive marginalia throughout, catchwords, leaves rather darkened and a little soiled, spine cracked with many leaves and gatherings loose, rather worn, early nineteenth-century inscription to leaf, 225 by 180 mm.; nineteenth-century marbled paper-backed boards, spine cracked and worn, remains of flap along outer edge of lower board, darkened and worn Provenance: Gifted by Suleyman Pasha to a Lisbon family in October 1840. An influential work on logic, including extracts on grammar and rhetoric, by the Persian polymath al-Taftazani (1322-1390 AD).