"BEGINNING OF 17TH CENTURY AN ARABIC COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT EAR...

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"BEGINNING OF 17TH CENTURY AN ARABIC COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT
EARLY COPY OF AL-FATWA’I QAZI KHAN ( ABDU’L AZIZ, FAKHR AL-DIN HASSAN BINMANSUR BIN ABI AL-QASIM MAHBUB, KNOWN AS ‘QADI KHAN AL- UZJAND)
COPIED BY ABDU’L BARAB AL- SHAHABI"

Arabic manuscript on paper, 253 folios, 29lines of black naskh, significant words and headings in red thulluth, text ruled with red, marginal notes in black, paginated,
FAKHR AL-DIN HASAN BIN MANSUR BIN ABI AL-QASIM MAHMUB BIN ‘ABD Al-‘AZIZ KNOWN AS QADI KHAN AL-UZJANDI (D. 1196): AL-FATAWA
MUWAQQA’ AL-GHARBI AL-SHAFI’I, MAMLUK EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY
Vol.III of III of this seminal work on Hanafi law, Arabic manuscript on paper, 253ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 29ll. of black naskh script, with red comma-shaped markers, titles and occasional words in red, some marginal notes, catchwords, paginated, opening folio with large incipit in fine white thuluth script on gold ground within polychrome and gold illuminated cartouches and shamsa, preceded by index table, colophon signed and dated 4th of Ramadan, fly-leaf with later owners’ inscriptions and seal impressions, loose in binding, in 15th/16th century Ottoman composite brown morocco binding with flap with gilt and stamped decoration