103 - 'Abd al-Mun'im b. Muhammad al-Khazraji al-Gharnati, known as Ibn al-Fars (d. 1201), Ibn al-Fars’s *Ahkam al-Qur’an*, Volume 1

'Abd al-Mun'im b. Muhammad al-Khazraji al-Gharnati, known as Ibn al-Fars (d. 1201), Ibn al-Fars’s *Ahkam al-Qur’an*, Volume 1 North Africa, Sha’ban 1226 H. (August–September 1811) Arabic manuscript on laid paper with a watermark featuring three crescents, copied in Maghribi script in black ink, 27 lines per page; 238 folios. The text is preceded by a biographical note on the author, accompanied by some of his poems. The surah titles and keywords are in gold, the headings in red and blue; the pages are framed with blue, red, and gold borders. The volume opens with an illuminated frontispiece and a title page listing the six surahs it contains (al-Fatiha through al-An’am). The colophon, in gold letters at the bottom of f. 238, states that this first volume is complete, with the second beginning with Surah al-A’raf. It indicates that the copy was made for the library of a great scholar, the mufti of the Hanafi Sayyids “at the African Hadra ” (Tunis?), Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad, son of Muhammad Husayn al-Barudi, and that it was completed around the middle of Sha’ban 1226 H. The scribe’s name is illegible. The manuscript bears two ownership notes in the margin of the title page, one of which is partially erased. Ottoman binding in brown morocco leather with a central mandorla on the spine. Condition: The original ink pagination is supplemented by modern pagination in pencil. 31.5 × 22 cm Provenance: Private Italian collection. This lot is accompanied by an export certificate issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Ibn al-Faras (d. 597 H./1201), a Maliki jurist from Granada, is the author of this commentary on the legal verses of the Qur’an. Ahkam al-Qur’an by Ibn al-Faras, first volume, North Africa (Tunis?), Sha’ban 1226 H. (1811)