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MANAR AL-USULAYN BY JALAL AL-DIN BIN ‘UMAR BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KHABBAZI (D. 1291 AD) Possibly Egypt or Syria, Mamluk Provinces, dated Tuesday 23 Rabi al-Awwal 749 AH (21 June 1348 AD), signed Ahmad Bin Amir Dawud Bin Ibrahim Arabic manuscript on wove paper, Manar al-Usulayn or possibly Al-Mughni fi Usul al-Fiqh, a treatise on Hanafi jurisprudence, 176ff., 2 modern fly leaves, with 28ll. to the page of black ink naskh script, with occasional marginal notes and highlights in red, the first folio with a later ownership note with the date 1001 AH (1592 AD), in an early 20th-century European binding, the page 23.4cm x 16cm. Provenance: The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Sotheby’s London, 18 April 1983, lot 31; Then Christie's London, 24 April 2015, lot 265
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MANAR AL-USULAYN BY JALAL AL-DIN BIN ‘UMAR BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KHABBAZI (D. 1291 AD) Possibly Egypt or Syria, Mamluk Provinces, dated Tuesday 23 Rabi al-Awwal 749 AH (21 June 1348 AD), signed Ahmad Bin Amir Dawud Bin Ibrahim Arabic manuscript on wove paper, Manar al-Usulayn or possibly Al-Mughni fi Usul al-Fiqh, a treatise on Hanafi jurisprudence, 176ff., 2 modern fly leaves, with 28ll. to the page of black ink naskh script, with occasional marginal notes and highlights in red, the first folio with a later ownership note with the date 1001 AH (1592 AD), in an early 20th-century European binding, the page 23.4cm x 16cm. Provenance: The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Sotheby’s London, 18 April 1983, lot 31; Then Christie's London, 24 April 2015, lot 265
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