SHIHAB AL-DIN ABU'L THANA' MAHMUD IBN SULAYMAN IBN FAHD AL-HANBALI AL-HALABI AL-DIMASHQI (D. 22 SHA'BAN AH 725/4 AUGUST 1325 AD): MANAZIL AL-AHBAB WA MANAZIH AL-ALBAB

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MAMLUK SYRIA, DATED SAFAR AH 720/MARCH-APRIL 1320 AD

Details

SHIHAB AL-DIN ABU'L THANA' MAHMUD IBN SULAYMAN IBN FAHD AL-HANBALI AL-HALABI AL-DIMASHQI (D. 22 SHA'BAN AH 725/4 AUGUST 1325 AD): MANAZIL AL-AHBAB WA MANAZIH AL-ALBAB
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MAMLUK SYRIA, DATED SAFAR AH 720/MARCH-APRIL 1320 AD
A work a chaste love, Arabic manuscript on paper consisting of 91ff. plus 2 fly leaves, each with 21ll. of naskh in black with important words in red and purple ink, opening folio with illuminated gilt and cobalt-blue heading and large rosette surrounded by four smaller rosettes set in gold and blue rules, in brown stamped and gilded morocco leather binding
Folio 8¼ x 6¼in. (21 x 15.8cm.)

Provenance

UK private collection since 1976.

Brought to you by

Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

abutler-wheelhouse@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2196

Lot Essay

Mahmud ibn Sulayman al-Hanbali was born in Damascus in AH 644/1246-47 AD. He studied Hanbali law and Arabic literature. His best known work is the Diwan al-Isha'. There are other copies of the present work in Berlin, Leiden, the British Museum, the Topkapi Museum and in Cairo (C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, Leiden, 1996, GI, 264; G II, 44 and 55 and S II, 43). This copy is however very early, and was copied by the author four years before his death.

More from Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds

View All