Ali Muhammad Transcriber (1 results)
Published by c. 1264-1267 A.H. (1847-1850 A.D.)., Iran (?) 1264
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Original hand-painted green and speckled gilt on papered boards, with gilt-lined borders enclosing floral motifs (all hand-painted), rebacked expertly in matching green morocco, spine in five gilt-lined compartments of raised bands, gilt black morocco label on two. , Text in Arabic.Karim ibn Ibrahim also penned the Mir?at al-Hik…mat., Size : 8vo., The manuscript was copied in Arabic on thin, polished, cream-coloured paper, in black and red ink, 22 lines of text per page in a written area of 166 x 94 mm (although some of the heavily-annotated pages have a far wider area: 220 x 127 mm). With wide margins, several pages are richly annotated., Foliation. 1 ff., 371 ff., 1 ff. Small brownspots on foreedge not affecting text, otherwise a very good copy of this detailed Arabic manuscript on traditional and contemporary medicine in 19th century Middle East.