47 - A fragment of a work of the Hadith, author unknown,

A fragment of a work of the Hadith, author unknown, North Africa or Andalusia, 12th-14th Century, Arabic manuscript on vellum, 6 leaves, 15-16 lines to the page written in a personal maghribi script in dark brown ink, diacritics and vowel points in brown ink, words to be commented on written in outer margin of each page in a later hand, bifolio from another similar manuscript inserted in the middle, occasional commentaries in outer margins, two leaves trimmed, edges frayed, some staining, late red morocco binding, badly stained and worn, crudely rebacked Folio 25 x 19.5cm. Provenance: Bonhams 12 October, 2005 Lot 19 [Not from the dispersed hadith manuscript on parchment which has appeared on the market over the last twenty years or so, variously catalogued and identified.] fragment (s) on vellum, hadith? check, central bifolium unrelated?, rebacked relatively recently in old boards