Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Ibn ‘Umar Jalal (or Jamal) al-Din Abu’l Ma’ali al-Qazwini, better known as Khatib al-Dimashqi (d.1338 AD), Talkhis al-miftah (Short Exposition on the Miftah, on Rhetorics), copied by Mustafa Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, Damascus, early 16th century Arabic manuscript on paper of various colours, 135 leaves plus 4 flyleaves, 11 lines to the page, written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, interstices heightened with gold, borders ruled in colours and gold, catchwords, folio 1b with a finely illuminated headpiece composed of interlacing split-palmettes and polychrome flowers with a pin-pricked strapwork border in gold, later Ottoman red leather binding with gilt ropework borders, ebru borders, with flap, ensuite leather slip-case 17.2 by 11.3cm.
Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Ibn ‘Umar Jalal (or Jamal) al-Din Abu’l Ma’ali al-Qazwini, better known as Khatib al-Dimashqi (d.1338 AD), Talkhis al-miftah (Short Exposition on the Miftah, on Rhetorics), copied by Mustafa Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, Damascus, early 16th century Arabic manuscript on paper of various colours, 135 leaves plus 4 flyleaves, 11 lines to the page, written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, interstices heightened with gold, borders ruled in colours and gold, catchwords, folio 1b with a finely illuminated headpiece composed of interlacing split-palmettes and polychrome flowers with a pin-pricked strapwork border in gold, later Ottoman red leather binding with gilt ropework borders, ebru borders, with flap, ensuite leather slip-case 17.2 by 11.3cm.
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