"15TH CENTURY HADITH BOOK, SIGNED BY QASIM (STUDENT OF SHEIK...

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"15TH CENTURY HADITH BOOK,
SIGNED BY QASIM (STUDENT OF SHEIKH HAMDULLAH)"

Mevlâ İzzeddîn Abdullatif b. Abdulazîz b. Emînü’d-Dîn er-Rûmî el- Aydınî el-Kirmânî İbni Ferişteh known as İbn al-Malak
Mabariq al-Azhar fi Sharh Mashariq al-Anwar, signed by QASIM, Constantinople
Dated Jumada l 901 AH- February 1496 AD

A treatise on hadith, Arabic manuscript on dark cream polished paper, 263ff.plus three flyleaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh , text within black ruled gold frames, catchwords, annotations in smaller script in both text and the margins, opening folio with illuminated headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in Ottoman red Morocco binding with flap, decorated with gilt stamped borders, purple paper doublures

Text 19 x 11.7 cm
Folio 25x16.7 cm

This manuscript commentary on Iyad bin Musa al Yahsubi’s Mashariq al-Anwar.
Calligrapher Qasim was a student of Sheikh Hamdullah and served as a servant of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. He later entered the circle of Saint Sheikh Vafa and joined the court of Sultan Bayazid ll as a master of servants. He was admired for his fine naskh and well natured personality. The fine quality of the illumination and paper and the fact that it may have been produced for the Imperial Library of Sultan Bayazid ll, who was a well-known bibliophile.
There are seven other known copies of this commentary, the earliest of which is dated AH936/1531AD, in British Library.our manuscript earliest known copy to date (C.Brocelmann)