Arabic .- [Arabic exercise book with a prayer at end], manuscript in Arabic, on paper, 31pp., in naskhi characters, 7 lines, ruled in red throughout, last f. slightly creased, a few small stains, browned, ink ownership inscription of James Modyford and with a few words of translation on 9pp., bound in Middle Hill boards, slightly soiled, lacks most of spine, 195 x 140mm., [Phillipps Ms. 18309], [Turkey], [17th century]. ⁂ Almost certainly: Sir James Modyford, baronet (1618-73), merchant and colonial agent in Jamaica. "Having been apprenticed to a Levant company merchant, he spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he learned Turkish." - Oxford DNB. Provenance: Sold as part of lot 170 in Bibliotheca Phillippica, Part IV, Catalogue of Persian, Turkish and Arabic Manuscripts, Sotheby's, 1968.
Arabic .- [Arabic exercise book with a prayer at end], manuscript in Arabic, on paper, 31pp., in naskhi characters, 7 lines, ruled in red throughout, last f. slightly creased, a few small stains, browned, ink ownership inscription of James Modyford and with a few words of translation on 9pp., bound in Middle Hill boards, slightly soiled, lacks most of spine, 195 x 140mm., [Phillipps Ms. 18309], [Turkey], [17th century]. ⁂ Almost certainly: Sir James Modyford, baronet (1618-73), merchant and colonial agent in Jamaica. "Having been apprenticed to a Levant company merchant, he spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he learned Turkish." - Oxford DNB. Provenance: Sold as part of lot 170 in Bibliotheca Phillippica, Part IV, Catalogue of Persian, Turkish and Arabic Manuscripts, Sotheby's, 1968.
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