Talkhis al-fawâʾid wa taqrîb al-mütabâʿid Commentary on al-Shatibi

by Arabic Manuscript, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān Ibn al-Qāṣiḥ

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Ink on thick burnished paper, 21 lines per page, in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink, dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand, with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches . Leather wallet binding with fore edge guard, boards decorated with a shamsa motif in blind, top edge marked in ink “Sharh al-Shatibi”. A bit shaken, textblock

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