$2,000
early copy of this treatise on the avoidance of plagues and epidemic diseases, the author is Sulayman Ibn Kamal Pasha (d. 940/1533), 86 ff., written in naskhi script, 17 lines to a page, headings in red. Ottoman Turkey, sixteenth-century. The work by Ibn Kamal Pasha is followed by a short treatise and a theological work by Al-Imam ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali. The manuscript has a very interesting provenance. According to an inscription in Latin at the beginning, it was one of the many rare manuscripts taken from Buda when the city was captured in 1686. The inscription records it in the hands of a number of individuals, until it was purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps - the pastedown spine number records this as Phillipps MS 4492. 8vo, early blind-stamped brown calf with central medallion of flowers. Upper board detached; spine and edges chipped; light intermittent soiling.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10