ARABIC MANUSCRITS and PERSONS. - Lot 198

ARABIC MANUSCRITS and PERSONS. Lot of 7 oriental manuscripts on various subjects and one printed work in Ottoman Turkish: -PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT. LIGHTING. IRAN. [Verse of mystical poetry]. Possibly 19th century. Small sheet of strong paper (8.6 x 11.7 cm) bearing a 2-line text in nasta'liq script, black ink in an illuminated frame with fine gold highlights and colored frames. -ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. IBN HISHAM AL-ANṢĀRĪ. Last six pages of a copy of the Sharh Shudhūr al-Dhahab fī maʿrifat kalām al-ʿarab. 1102 = 1690. 4 ff. (20.2 x 14.8 cm), last leaf has three notes, one of which is erased, and the basmala, manuscript in Maghrebian script comprising twenty-three lines per page, black ink on laid paper, with red for some words and the colophon (stains, wetness, small wormholes). MANUSCRIT copied by a certain Naṣr b. Āmir al- Nafzāwī as indicated in the colophon. -ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. [Account of the capture of Goury by Ahmadou Tall, Amîr al-Mu'minîn of the Toucouleur Empire (1886-1887)]. [West Africa, late 19th century]. [26] pp. including 3 blank (22.5 x14.5 cm), text between 13 and 16 lines in long Arabic script entirely vocalized, violet ink mixed with gold powder on paper, presence of advertisements. West African MANUSCRIPT documenting the military expedition marking the end of the Toucouleur Empire ruled by Ahmadou Tall, son of Umar Tall, known as Umar al-Hajj (c. 1796-1865) and founder of the Toucouleur Empire (1848-1890). -ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. A manual for secretaries and administrators, followed by a short text on marriage and repudiation. [sl. s.d. - after 16th c.], 39 ff. or 78 pp. (22 x 15 cm), 25-line text in Maghribi script, black and red ink on laid paper, advertisements and marginal notes (mainly corrections). Presence of numbering. The manuscript is acephalous, judging by the numbering indications on the first folios, 4 to 5 folios are missing. Numbering present on the first 23 pages. -ARAB MANUSCRITS [Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry]. Commentary on AL-SHANFARA's LĀMIYYAT AL-ʿARAB. [ca. 18th-19th c]. 2 untraced leaves (21 x 15.5 cm), text of 21 lines per page, marginal notes and advertisements, black and red ink on laid paper (small marginal defects). - MANUSCRIPTS IN ARABIC. [Arabic moral poetry]. [S.l.], [early 20th c.] 12 ff. in-8 square (29.3 x 20.6 cm), 13 pp. n. ch., 5 and ½ pp. bl., text in blue ink in two columns, between 15 and 20 lines per page. ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. SHAYKH DAWŪD AL-ANṬĀKĪ. Extract from a copy of the important medical textbook composed in the 16th century by Dawūd al-Anṭākī (d. 1599). [s.l., s.d - ca. 17th-early 20th c.?]. 8 ff. or 16 pp. (21.5 x 16 cm), 23-line text in Maghribi script, black and red ink for subtitles and defined terms is inserted in a box drawn in red ink, advertisements and a few words in margin. [Ottoman Empire]. [Mathematics]. [TRIGONOMETRIC TABLES IN TURKISH IN OTTOMAN]. [s.l., s,d, ca. 1800]. In-12, pp. 2-271, bound brown leather lower board present, three Ottoman stamps (work incomplete, title page and probably pages at end).