{"title":"Middle East","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"keur-biblia-dat-is-de-gantsche-h-schrifture-1686","title":"Keur, Biblia : dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, 1686.","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eWith all folding plates finely handcoloured\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiblia, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDordrecht, (colophon: printed by) H. and J. Keur and Amsterdam, M. Doornick in compagnie, 1686.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElephant folio. [20], 302, [2] 134, [11], 164, [2], 66 ff. With 6 folding handcoloured engraved plates (complete) and an engraved title-page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContemporary blind-tooled calf with complete copper fittings. Modern calf spine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeautifully illustrated copy of the 1686 Dutch “Keur” Bible edition, the standard Bible of the Dutch Reformed Church, corresponding to Luther's version in Germany and King James' Bible in England. This copy with all 6 folding maps nicely contemporary handcoloured, clean and crisp. The plates by Bastiaen Stoopendaal (1637-1707) depict respectively the world (with America and Australia still incomplete); “Paradise” i.e. the Middle East; The Journey of the Children of Israel (Sinai Peninsula and Israel region); city plan of Jerusalem; Canaan (Israel); the Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Greece, Italy, Egypt and Cyprus). All maps are surrounded by a highly decorative border. The world map contains classical motifs in the borders that are taken from Berchem's cartouche for Visscher's world map of 1658 (see Shirley 406). The text includes the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha at the end. Keur Bibles are known for having the spine break due to the weight of the massive book block. This copy has a professionally replaced strong new leather spine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpine discoloured. First free endpaper misses corner, owner’s inscription on second free endpaper. The bottom corner in the middle of the book block is slightly worn without affecting text. A few minor repairs throughout, overall in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReference: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDarlow-Moule 3307; Shirley 513.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42084286300335,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/products\/20220928_104830-removebg.jpg?v=1674843633"},{"product_id":"santos-ethiopia-oriental-1609","title":"Santos, Ethiopia Oriental, 1609.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESERVED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtremely rare, important and early work on East Africa and the East Indies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoão dos Santos (Évora after 1560 - Goa 1622).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEthiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Including:]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVaria historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eÉvora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos de Evora), Manoel de Lyra, 1609 (colophon vol. 2: printed in 1608).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 volumes in 1. 8\u003c\/span\u003e°\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. [8], 140; [3, 1 blank], 123 ll. (index bound after title in vol. 2). Collates: [pi]6, 2[pi]2, A-R8, S4; A, Q4-Q6 [= index], A2-A8, B-P8, Q3 (complete).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 1 with an engraved title-page depicting a female figure seated on a crocodile (dragon?), an elephant, a palm tree, a lion and a church in a landscape, surrounded by an architectural border with the image of Saint Dominic in a cartouche at the top. Signed Bras Nunes Fecit; vol. 2 with the title-page in a woodcut architectural border with two caryatids and an inset vignette with Saint Dominic and Madonna. Furthermore with several woodcut ornamental initials and head- and tailpieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRebound in older stiff vellum with traces of medieval lettering, gold-tooled spine in early 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century “à la grotesque” style, red painted edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComplete first edition of the first book on East Africa and its (Muslim) communities, followed by a vast collection of Dominican missionaries’ descriptions of Armenia, Turkey, Persia, Tartary, Russia, Abissinia (Ethiopia), India (a.o. Goa, Chaul, Cochi), Indonesia (a.o. Solòr \u0026amp; Timor), Siam, Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa, Sao Thomé, Malaysia and Japan. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis remarkable book was already called “extremely rare” in a 1783 London auction catalogue and in the 1923 Gilhofer \u0026amp; Ranschburg catalogue. Today very few libraries own a copy. Outside Europe we traced only one in the U.S. (CUA), one in Toronto and an incomplete copy in Macau. Most copies, including Madrid, have a missing or heavily damaged frontispiece. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first volume is an autobiographical narrative of an 11-year missionary journey from Portugal to East Africa and back by Dos Santos. The title, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEthiopia Orientalis\u003c\/em\u003e, can be confusing because the book actually provides a description of the nature, customs, and history of what is now mainly Mozambique, the Comores and Madagascar. The book is regarded as “the best description of the Portuguese occupation of Africa at the end of the sixteenth century, when Portugal was at the zenith of her power there. His account of the manners and customs of the Bantu tribes at that date is most valuable (...) This work is now a Portuguese classic.” (see Theal). Furthermore, it is “The first European description of the customs of various African ethnic groups, including Swahili communities and other Muslim groups” (see Lobato). It provides the only remaining source for historic events that occurred in the region by the Swahili, Azimba, Tonga, Bororo, Makua, Mouros (for the whole Muslim population along the coast), Ottoman and Arab people. The entire first part of this volume deals with the Muslim communities in East Africa. Dos Santos admits in his book to aggressive acts by him and other Europeans against Islamic practises, such as the burning of a mosque and forbidding Ramadan ceremonies. But he also reports about the peaceful coexistence of Muslims and Christians. He shares much about the role of women in the tribes that he encountered. Slavery is a recurring theme in the book whenever Santos writes about Europeans, making this survey fundamental for our knowledge of the Portuguese slavery exploits in colonial East Africa. He also made valuable observations about the natural history of the region. In several chapters he describes “fruits and cereals, as well as descriptions of animals such as crocodiles, lions, leopards, wild dogs, monkeys and baboons” (see Beinart). Santos claims to have seen and even eaten a mermaid(!), that he calls “peixe mulher”. The book is also “the first Western text describing the torporific catfish” (see Piccolino), called “peixe tremendor” (tremble fish), found in Mozambique's Sofala River. Santos observed that local people used the skin of the fish for “fetishes”. Due to difficult access to the region, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEthiopia Oriental \u003c\/em\u003eremained the primary source for information on East Africa until the mid-19th century (see Lobato), making its significance invaluable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the only known published work by the Portuguese Dominican missionary João dos Santos. It consists of two bibliographically independent volumes that are always found together. It was published at the Dominic College in Évora, where Dos Santos had received his education and returned to in between his travels. With this important publication the Dominicans aimed to assert their position in East Africa and Asia against their Jesuit competitors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDos Santos left Portugal in 1586 and four months later he arrived at Ilha de Moçambique, a small island strategically located at the narrowest point of the Strait of Mazambique. It had a large fort that served as a slavery hub. The Dominicans had a monastery there. He was at once sent inland to Sofala, where he remained four years with Friar João Madeira. His goal was to convert the local Muslim population to Christianity. Between them they baptized some 1694 natives and had built three chapels when they were ordered back to Mozambique. After a journey of great hardships they were forced to remain on the Zambesi River, dos Santos staying at Tete for eight months. From registers found there he discovered that the Dominicans had baptized about 20,000 natives before the year 1591 at Tete alone. From Mozambique he was sent to the small island of Querimba, where he remained for two years. The registers here gave the information that 16,000 natives had been baptized before the year 1593. Next he was appointed commissary of the Bulla da Cruzada at Sofala, where he stayed more than a year. His labours in Africa ended on 22 August, 1597, when he left Mozambique for India where he stayed in Goa and Cochin. In 1600 he returned to Portugal, where he worked on the present book. He left again for Mozambique shortly after the publication of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEthiopia Oriental, \u003c\/em\u003e in 1610 and from there he travelled to Goa where he lived the rest of his life until he died in 1622. In 1891 a second edition appeared, which is now mostly held in libraries worldwide, instead of the present first edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhereas the first volume only concerns East Africa, the second volume, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVaria Historia,\u003c\/em\u003e has a broader scope. The 83 chapters delivering tales of Dominican missionaries from all kinds of faraway places east of Europe, providing a wealth of information on places and events in India (a.o. the conquest by the Mughals of Chaul and a report on the Muslim Kunjali people in Malabar), the Malay Archipelago, Russia and much more. This volume has consistently been understudied compared to the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEthiopia Oriental\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA good copy. Both illustrated title-pages with some retouches in ink. Mainly marginal restoration to the first title-page. Minor marginal thumbing and spotting. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Silva’s \/ Pedro de Azevedo auction, November 2000, lot 736. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReference:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Arouca, S 176, 177; Ávila Perez, 7001; Palau, 300592; Palha, 4222; Inocêncio, IV, p. 33; Salva II, 3400; Samodães (with facsimile title), 3056; not in Brunet and Heber.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCopies: BLC 290-47; CGBNP 162-1069; NS 0121640.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor illustrator Bras Nunes see: Ernesto de Sousa, 1374.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeinart, William, Saul Dubow.\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present, \u003c\/em\u003eCambridge University Press, 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGilhofer \u0026amp; Ranschburg catalogue nr. 163: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncunabula, standard works comprising rare and valuable books on bibliography, typography, geography, Africa, America, Balcans, Orient, Jesuits etc\u003c\/em\u003e. Vienna, Verlag von Gilhofer \u0026amp; Ranschburg, 1923, nr. 407: “The extremely rare book. The first part unknown to Brunet and Heber, contains many important and interesting informations on Moçambique, Egypt, Arabia and India. The second part contains the history of Christian missions in this countries.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLobato, Manuel. “João dos Santos” in: D. Thomas \u0026amp; J. Chesworth (ed.), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographic History\u003c\/em\u003e. Vol 9: Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700), Leiden, Brill, 2017, pp. 92-99.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewitt, Malyn.\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A History of Mozambique, \u003c\/em\u003eIndiana University Press, 1995.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePiccolino, Marco, Stanley Finger, Jean-Gaël Barbara. “Discovering the African Freshwater “Torpedo”: Legendary Ethiopia, Religious Controversies, and a Catfish Capable of Reanimating Dead Fish.” In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJournal of the History of the Neurosciences\u003c\/em\u003e, Taylor \u0026amp; Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2011.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheal, George McCall. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Portuguese in South Africa, with a description of the native races between the river Zambesi and the Cape of Good Hope during the sixteenth century. \u003c\/em\u003eCape Town, J.C. Juta \u0026amp; Co., 1896.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166836494511,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/products\/titelsantos1.png?v=1703149351"},{"product_id":"herrera-historia-general-del-mundo-1606-1612","title":"Herrera, Historia general del Mundo, 1606-1612.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmongst the greatest histories of the New World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis copy a rare complete second edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAntonio Herrera de Tordesillas (1549-1626).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrimera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XVII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LIII. hasta el de M.D.LXX.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eValladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e°\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in 8s.\u003c\/span\u003e [8], 820, [42] pp. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollates: x4, A-2Z8, 3A-3B6, x-2x8, 3x4.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[includes:]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSegunda parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XV. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LXXI. hasta el de M.D.LXXXV.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eValladolid, [Juan Godinez de Millis], 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e°\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in 8s. 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[8], 780, [34] pp. Collates: \u003c\/span\u003eπ\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4, A*, x-x2, B-3B8, 3C6, A-B8, C.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 volumes.  Each volume with a woodcut Royal Spanish coat of arms on the title page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEarly 19\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century marbled calf with gilt title and decorations on smooth spines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRare complete second edition of Herrera’s monumental chronicle of world history during the reign of King Philip II of Spain (1554-1598). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e               Cet ouvrage est un des plus importants qu’on ait publiés sur les découvertes des Espagnols dans le Nouveau-Monde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Salva).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBesides being renowned as one of the most important sources on early American history, it also provides a wealth of information about Arabia, Turkey, India, China, Japan, the Philippines, The Netherlands, Great-Britain, Scandinavia, Malta and more. The author was Historian of the Indies to the King and had access to now lost manuscript primary sources, including those by De las Casas and Palacio. On the subject of the New World this work eclipsed all that was published before it in truth, scope, accuracy and style. No book received more praise in Sabin’s Americana bibliography. The very long entry, in which Sabin calls Herrera the “Prince of Historians” is mainly an impressive compilation of praise by other bibliographers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In John Carter Brown’s \u003cem\u003eBiblioteca Americana\u003c\/em\u003e the book was given the honour to start off the second volume and it is marked as the first work of importance about the history of the Americas. Curiously though, they mention the second edition as printed at Madrid, by Franco, in 1728… Sabin on the other hand fails to mention the first edition from Madrid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                Compared to the first edition (Madrid, 1601) the contents of this second edition differ greatly, so much so that they might be viewed as different books altogether. The text is completely reworked and enlarged. The first edition was published in Madrid just before the Spanish Court moved to Valladolid, where the second, improved, edition would be published. Volume 1 and 2 were published at Valladolid in 1606 but strangely the colophon in vol. 2 mentions that it was printed in 1605 and vol. 1 in 1606. The third volume was published later (1612) and is a first and only edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebindings rubbed at the edges. Jesuit stamp on p. 1 of vol. 1. Title-pages repaired, not affecting text, vol.1 small hole in center of title. Sporadically slightly browned pages. Ink offset in the margins of the final pages of vol. 1 . Tear in l. 2M7 of vol. 1. Stamp on f. 1. Otherwise in good, clean condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003eLibrary of\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ethe Imperial College of Jesuits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGiuseppe Marcocci, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e, Oxford University Press, 2020.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMariano Cuesta Domingo, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAntonio Herrera y su Historia General del Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e, Madrid, Boletín Oficial del Estado, 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalau 114318, 114319, 114317.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSabin 31559 (does not mention the Madrid edition(!)).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYolanda Rodríguez Pérez, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Dutch Revolt Through Spanish Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e, Bern, Peter Lang, 2008.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42326661988527,"sku":"","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/products\/20230217_130622-removebg.png?v=1702393201"},{"product_id":"franz-colombari-american-missionary-in-tehran-1848","title":"Franz Colombari, American missionary in Tehran, 1848.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerican missionary Joseph Gallup Cochran in Tehran, Iran\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFranz Colombari (Smyrna 1813-Paris 1879).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePortrait of Joseph Gallup Cochran and Conrad Gustav Fagergren.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTehran, Persia (Iran), 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWatercolour and pencil on wove paper. 16,5 x 11,5 cm. Stamp on verso “vente F. Colombari 1981”. Manuscript title on paper pasted on back of mount: “Un Suèdois et un Américain du passage à Tehéran, F. Colombari”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRare image of one of the early American missionaries to Iran: Rev. Joseph Gallup Cochran. He is portrayed here by prolific Orientalist artist Franz Colombari, together with Swedish physician Dr Conrad Gustav Fagergren. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                This drawing a strong record of Western presence in Iran in the mid-19\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. Cochran, Colombari and Fagergren were close to the people in power at the Tehran court during a period when the Qajar Shah opened the country to Western influence. Colombari had good ties with the Aqasi (grand vizier) Haji Mirza Abbas Iravani (Persian: حاجی میرزا عباس ایروانی), Fagergren was the physician of the Shah and Cochran was to lead the influential Presbyterians in the Urumia region. Fagergren had just arrived in Tehran in 1847 and Cochran in 1848. Colombari had been at the court for several years already. The present drawing was made shortly after Cochran’s arrival because the men were dispersed when the Shah died in 1848. As the deceased Shah’s physician Fagergren had to flee. Colombari on the other hand was a close confidant of crown prince Naser al-Din Shah Qajar who became Shah in 1848. Cochran moved to Urmia for his missionary work.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                American missionary Cochran was an Amherst College graduate. He was a Presbyterian minister, sent as a missionary to Persia. His son Dr. Joseph P. Cochran is better known, a.o. for being the founder of Urmia's First Medical College . American missionaries were active in Iran since 1834, where they helped the local Christian population in the Urumia region, especially by opening schools and developing education. The first school for boys opened in Urumia in 1836 and for girls in 1838. Shortly after opening schools for local Iranian Christians, the Presbyterians changed direction and opened separate schools for Muslims at the request of Mohammad Shah.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e               \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003ein very good condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Etienne Mercier, Paris: 'Le Colonel F. Colombari et autres voyageurs de l’Orient du XIXe au debut du XXe siècle', Salle Drouot, 19 June 1981; Galerie Soustiel, Paris, 1985; Olympia Auctions, London, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGerald H Anderson, David M. Stowe. \"Cochran, Joseph Gallup (1817–1871)\". In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Dictionary of Christian Missions\u003c\/em\u003e. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999. p. 140.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJasamin Rostam-Kolayi. “From Evangelizing to Modernizing Iranians: The American Presbyterian Mission and Its Iranian Students.” In: Iranian Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2008, pp. 213–39.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoseph G. 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Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFolio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates: an engraved frontispiece showing the Portuguese Royal coat-of-arms by J. Gomez, 1727; a full-page engraved portrait of the Archbishop of Lisbon Luís de Sousa by Claude Duflos, 1701; and an engraved portrait of the author João Curvo Semedo also by J. Gomez, 1727.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContemporary sheep with gold-tooled spine and raised bands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important pioneering Portuguese medical guide showcasing practices from around the world, this rare fourth edition stands out for its inclusion of the list of drugs sourced from other continents: \"Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America, \u0026amp; de outras partes do mundo vem ao nosso Reyno.\" In this list, the author delineates 52 medicinal drugs originating outside Europe, primarily from tropical regions such as Brazil, Amazonia, Angola, Mozambique, and Goa, as well as from Virginia and China. Initially featured in the third edition of 1716, this edition marks the second appearance of the list. It was often excised from copies, as evidenced by the British Library's 1716 copy, and likely circulated separately without attribution or date, as observed in the Wellcome copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted shortly after the author's death, this fourth edition of the \"Polyanthea Medicinal\" (not recorded in auction records or in the Wellcome Collection) was overseen by his son, Ignacio. While the text is newly set and largely akin to earlier editions, two of the three plates have been substituted with new ones by J. Gomez: the frontispiece and the portrait of Semedo. Though artistically of somewhat inferior quality, the portrait of Semedo intriguingly features additional books, portraying him not only as a physician but also as a prolific author. Subsequent editions reverted to the original text and portraits, rendering this fourth edition a unique anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, Semedo, served as a physician to the Royal family while also running a successful apothecary business. This dual role facilitated a robust network of traders who supplied him with diverse and previously unknown medical resources from distant locales. In his principal work, Semedo adeptly incorporated influences from non-Western regions while adhering to European conventions, seamlessly integrating citations from African and South Asian healers into the nearly 1000-page compendium. For instance, Semedo cataloged entries for Virginian snake root as a treatment for rattlesnake bites, as well as \"Tambuape\" and \"Jamvarandim\" roots used by indigenous Bahian peoples as antidotes (see: Berry, p. 41).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e binding worn, preserving the original endpapers. Slight worming to the pastedowns and free endpapers. Slight stain in bottom corner of last couple pages. Contemporary annotation in ink on last free endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Inocêncio, III, p. 357; not in Sabin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Breen, ‘Semedo’s sixteen secrets: tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics’. In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmpires of knowledge, \u003c\/em\u003eBrill, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChelsea L. Berry, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Contested Atlantic, 1680-1850\u003c\/em\u003e. Diss. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHugh Cagle, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembling the Tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge University Press, 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg data-mce-fragment=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/Afbeelding1_480x480.png?v=1700749796\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/Afbeelding1_480x480.png?v=1700749796\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMap of the sources of drugs in Semedo’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMemorial.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSource: Hugh Cagle, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembling the Tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge University Press, 2018, fig. 13.3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47373532528983,"sku":"","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/20231123_142655.png?v=1713953861"},{"product_id":"mallet-beschreibung-des-gantzen-welt-kreises-1719","title":"Mallet, Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, 1719.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eDescription of the world with 645 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 645 plates (618 numbered, 5 frontispieces, 17 portraits, 5 unnumbered or wrongly numbered plates). The main title in vol. 1 erroneously mentions 650 plates. See full index of plates below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally rare complete copy of Alain Manesson Mallet’s “Description of the World.” This remarkable work, here in the second edition of the German translation, provides the reader with a guide to countless places in the world, divided into four parts: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. This is preceded by an introduction to cosmography and geography. The illustrations show maps, cities, people, and particularities of the places that are described. Some interesting examples of illustrations are a portrait of Inca Emperor Atabalipa, three plates showing West Indies plantations, the Native American Powhatan chief and village of Pomejok, two Samogitians, a map of the Davis Strait, the Dalai Lama, several maps of India and Arabia, the Nile with crocodiles, and much, much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition appeared in Paris in 1683 as \"Description de l'univers,\" and soon after, the hundreds of copper plates for the illustrations were transferred to Jan David Zunner in Frankfurt, who published the first edition of the German translation in 1684, with German text engraved in the plates. He then published the second French edition in 1685, with the German text still in the plates. The second German edition that we offer here was also printed in Frankfurt, but 34 years later by Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung. They used the same plates again and added portraits of the rulers of that time. By then the plates had become quite worn, so they were re-engraved by at least three German artists: Vogel, W.C. Drucker, and Eggelhoff. Still, the plates have visible wear and the printing was not done very well in some cases due to unclear strikes and plates that were not cleaned properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition has many more plates than the first German and second French editions printed at Frankfurt (see VD17 39:129237P; 3:306499P). We traced no definitive reference for the total number of plates this edition should have, but we count 645 apparently without any missing. Copies with the same number of plates as the one we offer here are very rarely found. Of the multiple copies that are recorded at auction, all have fewer than 645 plates. The nearest being a copy sold in 1991 by Sotheby’s with 613 plates (for GBP 4,290).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndex of plates in this copy:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 1: 112 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 1 portrait + 1 (87B) = 115\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 2: 133 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 portraits = 137\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 3: 101 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 unnumbered plates = 105\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 4: 130 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 8 portraits = 139\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 5: 142 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 5 portraits + 1 unnumbered plate = 149\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eVolume 2: minor worming in blank corners of first few pages. Faded stain in the plate leaves only, probably occurred before binding, predominantly visible on verso. Otherwise the whole in remarkably fresh and clean condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e German: VD17 39:129237P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e French: VD17 3:306499P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003end \u003c\/sup\u003eGerman : VD18 11031883\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlden-Landis 719\/104 (Vol. V); Phillips 4280; cf. Borba de Moraes II, 511 and Sabin 44130 (first French edition).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMireille Pastoureau, \u003cem\u003eLes atlas Français XVIe-XVIIe siècles,\u003c\/em\u003e Manneson Mallet IA, p. 309-322.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47421143023959,"sku":"","price":14500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/77f48a45-ace0-427f-ba70-bb954aff2a48.png?v=1774516285"},{"product_id":"muhammed-rezai-a-lily-and-a-rose-qajar-iran-ca-1750-1850","title":"Muhammed Rezai, a lily and a poppy, Qajar Iran, ca. 1750-1850.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBy the painter from Shiraz, Iran\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMuhammed Rezai.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTwo flowers drawings: a lily and a poppy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eQajar Iran, ca. 1750-1850.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOpaque pigments and ink on paper, signed “Muhammed Rezai Shirazi” and “Muhammed Rezai”. 30,5 x 19,5 and 21,6 x 13,5 cm. Laid on paper mounts.\u003cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTwo fine Qajar paintings of a lily and a rose, signed by renowned 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century Iranian flower painter Muhammed Rezai. His works are kept in major museums worldwide but what is interesting about the two drawings we offer here, is that the one with the poppy (likely \u003cspan\u003ePapaver somniferum or opium poppy)\u003c\/span\u003e is signed “Shirazi”, meaning he was from the Iranian city of Shiraz. We did not see other drawings by Rezai signed this way. Compare BM \u003cspan\u003e1983,0315,0.1.24.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePossibly from an album because page numbers are inscribed in pencil in a modern hand on the mounts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ecolours very bright.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eminor foxing, lily drawing minor browning, otherwise in very good condition.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48215530930519,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/H0900-L368229114_original.jpg?v=1715774911"},{"product_id":"printed-in-alexandria-napoleon-admits-his-first-defeat","title":"Printed in Alexandria: Napoleon admits his first defeat","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNapoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821); Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769-1834).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRépublique française. Au camp devant Acre, le 21 Floréal an 7. \u003c\/span\u003eBonaparte, Générale en chef, au Directoire exécutif. \u003c\/b\u003e[incipit:] \u003cb\u003eJe vous ai fait connaître qu' Ahhmet Djezzar, Pacha d'Acre, de Tripoli et de Damas, avait été nommé Pacha d'Egypte.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[including:]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRépublique française. Au quartier-général devant Acre, le 8 Floréal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[sic]\u003cb\u003e an 7. Bonaparte, Générale en chef, au Directoire exécutif. \u003c\/b\u003e[incipit:] \u003cb\u003eJe vous ai fait connaître par le courrier que je vous ai expédié le 27 floréal, les événements glorieux pour la République qui se sont passés depuis trois mois en Syrie.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Alexandria, \u003ci\u003eImprimerie orientale et française,\u003c\/i\u003e after May 16, 1799].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e4°. 8 pp. Collates: A-A4.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTwo reports by General Napoleon from the battlefields in current Israel, printed in Alexandria. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDuring the invasion of Egypt, the French first set up a printing press in Alexandria, but in October 1798 they moved the better printing equipment to Cairo. As a result of the limited equipment, they were unable to print an accent above the capital “E” and instead added an apostrophe ('). This feature also appears in other publications from the Alexandria press. Another characteristic is the use of thick, fibrous paper, in contrast to the thinner paper employed in Cairo. The report presented here was also printed in Cairo at the same time, with a copy preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGeneral Napoleon embarked on his Syria Campaign after securing control of Cairo, engaging in several battles across what is now Egypt, Gaza, and Israel. The campaign culminated in his defeat at the fort of Acre (modern-day Akko, Israel). To keep his people informed and maintain control of the narrative, Napoleon regularly sent military reports back to Egypt, where they were printed to disseminate propagandist information.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe present publication contains two such reports. The first, dated May 10th, 1799, was written from Acre by Napoleon's secretary, Fauvelet de Bourrienne. In this report, Napoleon admits to his first defeat as a military leader. He was defeated by Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar, who successfully defended the fort of Acre for the Ottomans. This victory brought Jazzar significant fame in the Muslim world, earning him the sobriquet “the slave who defeated Napoleon.” The report also notes that as a result of this victory, \"Ahhmet Djezzar, Pasha of Acre, Tripoli, and Damascus, had been appointed Pasha of Egypt [by the Ottomans],\" thereby challenging Napoleon's hold on the territory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAfter this news, Napoleon describes in the present report the campaign's progress since his last dispatch two months earlier, detailing various military engagements in the Gaza\/Israel\/Palestine region, including the Battles of Nazareth, Cana, and Mount Tabor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIn the second report, dated May 16\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, Napoleon explains the reasons for his defeat at Acre and outlines his strategy for retreating to Egypt, including his intention to destroy Jaffa (near present-day Tel Aviv, Israel) on his way back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efirst and last pages very slightly rubbed, otherwise in excellent condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCopies:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e none, only one copy of the Cairo editon in BnF: FRBNF33764485.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49116139356503,"sku":"","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/5.png?v=1726149200"},{"product_id":"arrest-and-imprison-men-and-women-who-according-to-the-divan-of-cairo-falsely-claim-to-be-saints-wander-the-streets-either-fully-or-partially-naked","title":"“Arrest and imprison men and women who, according to the Divan of Cairo, falsely claim to be saints, wander the streets either fully or partially naked”","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbdullah (Jacques-François de Boussay de) Menou (1750-1810). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAu quartier-général du Kaire, le 9 nivose an 9 de la République Française, une et indivisible. Ordre du jour, du 9 nivôse an 9.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAu Kaire [Gizah], de l’Imprimerie nationale, [December 30, 1800].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFolio, 2 pp. With woodcut device on title and woodcut signature at the end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis unrecorded \u003ci\u003eOrdre du jour\u003c\/i\u003e (daily orders), printed in Cairo, serves as a vivid example of the cultural clash during the French occupation of Egypt. The document outlines the orders and regulations issued by General Menou in response to a complaint from the Divan of Cairo concerning the public behavior of French individuals, emphasizing the need for respect toward local customs and religious practices. Notably, it sheds rare light on the role of women in this brief colonial society. Reflecting the tensions and cultural conflicts of the time, these orders highlight Menou's efforts to maintain order and adhere to Islamic laws within the occupied territory. This extremely rare document, of which no other copies have been found, underscores a significant shift in the final phase of French rule toward greater respect and accommodation of local customs and traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe document mentions two articles and one specific case:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArticle I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e decrees that generals, commanders, military chiefs, and any officials responsible for law enforcement must arrest and imprison men and women who, according to the Divan of Cairo, falsely claim to be saints, wander the streets either fully or partially naked, and engage in public actions that are explicitly condemned by the law. These individuals will be judged according to the standards of any society that upholds public morals.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArticle II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e states that both men and women, whether in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt, who perform acts—often for money—that depict immoral, scandalous, or unnatural behavior will also be arrested.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAdditionally, the document orders the release of Denis Cicéron, a sapper in the 2nd battalion of the 13th light infantry demi-brigade, who was accused of attempting to violate and abduct a Turkish girl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe document is signed by Divan President Abd-Allah Cherqaoui and Secretary Mohammed el-Mohdy, dated 7 Cha’ban, 1215, in the Hijri calendar, and also bears the woodcut signature of Adjutant General René.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAfter the assassination of Kléber in June 1800, Jacques-François \"Abdallah\" Menou assumed command of the French forces in Egypt, adopting a distinct approach to the Egyptian people. He was intent to integrate with Egyptian culture, by converting to Islam, adopting the name Abdullah and marrying an Egyptian woman, Sitti Zobeida, who was said to be a descendant of Mohammed. Unlike his predecessor, who treated Egypt as an occupied territory, Menou had colonial ambitions, even considering granting French citizenship to Egyptians. His leadership was contentious, particularly after the Battle of Canope, where his decisions were criticized, leading to internal strife among his officers. Despite his efforts to maintain control, Menou ultimately surrendered to the British in 1801, marking the end of the French campaign in Egypt and his return to France.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCopies: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eno recorded copies found.\u003cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e untrimmed, old fold with minor browning, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49116311421271,"sku":"","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/9_fb596123-270a-4d2b-9f38-807a03240bda.png?v=1730900063"},{"product_id":"kleber-s-last-report-presentation-copy-inscribed-to-the-commander-of-the-french-engineering-corps-in-egypt","title":"Kléber’s last report; presentation copy inscribed to the commander of the French Engineering Corps in Egypt","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800); François-Étienne Damas (1764-1828).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRapport fait au Gouvernement Français, des évenemens qui se sont passés en Egypte, depuis la conclusion du Traité d’el-A’rych, jusqu’à la fin de prairial an 8.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAu Kaire [Gizah], de l'Imprimerie nationale, [after June 19, 1800]. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e4°. [2], 65, [1 blank] pp. Collates: \u003c\/span\u003eπ\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, A-H4, \u003c\/span\u003eπ\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSewn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eInscribed by hand in ink on top of half title: “Au commadt. du génie”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRapport of the French Military Proceedings in Egypt Between January and June 1800, by Generals Kléber and Damas. Presentation copy inscribed by the author\/publisher to the commander of the French Engineering Corps in Egypt: General Marie Théodore Urbain Garbé.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAfter the failed Syrian Campaign and the retreat of the Army of the Orient to Egypt, Napoleon spontaneously decided to return to France. On August 22, 1799, he appointed General Kléber as his successor, leaving him to face the daunting task of battling the combined British and Ottoman forces.\u003cbr\u003eOn January 24, 1800, Kléber concluded the Treaty of El Arich with the British, aiming for an honorable evacuation of the French army from Egypt. However, the British betrayed the agreement, forcing Kléber into the Battle of Heliopolis on the outskirts of Cairo on March 20. After a victorious outcome, Kléber confronted the Second Cairo Revolt, which erupted simultaneously and lasted until April 21.\u003cbr\u003eDuring the revolt, insurgents broke into Marcel’s quarters at the Cairo printing press. Marcel was wounded, his secretary Henrici was beheaded, and the workshop was set on fire. Fortunately, the printers had already been moved to safety in Gizah, though the situation there was hardly more secure. As Turkish forces, supported by the British, advanced on the city, General Belliard, the city's governor, decided to relocate the printers to the nearby, safer citadel of Gizah, where this present report was subsequently printed.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the report was being drafted, General Kléber was assassinated in Cairo on June 14, 1800. His former aide-de-camp and successor, General Damas, completed the report. Kléber's portion ends on page 38, after which Damas continues: “Ici est terminée la partie du Rapport qu’avait écrite le Général en Chef Kléber” (\"Here ends the part of the report written by General-in-Chief Kléber\").\u003cbr\u003eThe final four pages of the document include the “Capitulation accordée par le Général en Chef Kléber à Nassyf Pacha, Othman-Effendy et Ibrahyn-Bey, pour l’évacuation du Kaire par les troupes Ottomanes et les Mamlouks” (\"Capitulation granted by General-in-Chief Kléber to Nassyf Pacha, Othman-Effendy, and Ibrahyn-Bey for the evacuation of Cairo by the Ottoman and Mamluk troops\").\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCopies:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e 2: BnF: RES 8-LC2-999 (ALPHA,2,10); Austrian National Library: 179468-B.5 ALT MAG.\u003cbr\u003eNot in BL, QNL, Yale, Harvard, Princeton etc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ewholly untrimmed. Faded stain in the margin of the first 3 leaves, otherwise in excellent condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFreitag, Ulrike, et al., editors. Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. 1st ed., vol. 14, Berghahn Books, 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49116371550551,"sku":"","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/15641d95-8751-4d79-8662-c4ac33fdecaf.png?v=1726150633"},{"product_id":"lithographed-in-tehran","title":"Lithographed in Tehran","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAnonymous [Dar al-Funun].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eZubdat al-Hikayat (The Quintessence of Tales \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eزبدة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالحكايات\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTehran (Dar al-Saltanah-ye Tehran \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eدار\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالسلطنه\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eطهران\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e), Royal Government Printing Office (Chapkhaneh-ye Dowlati \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eچاپخانه\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eدولتي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e), Nowruz 1285 AH \/ March 1868 CE (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eنوروز\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e١٢٨٥\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eهجری\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eقمری\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°, 65 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLater(?) green morocco, lavishly gold-tooled, with flap (rabat \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eرباط\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e) on the upper cover, smooth spine, blind-stamped garland frame on the inside of the flap, edges gilt, white silk paste-downs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA rare lithographed Persian book printed in Tehran in 1868, compiled under the auspices of a Persian language instructor at the Dar al-Funun (the institute of higher education in Qajar-era Tehran, Iran), possibly associated with the court educator Mirza Mohammad-Hossein Gharib. The colophon notes that the book was produced with the express purpose of educating students at the Dar al-Funun and other modern institutions. In the Middle East, lithography was the preferred method for printing books, as it preserved the aesthetics of manuscript calligraphy. In Tehran, lithographic printing became established in the 1830s with support from the royal court and rising demand for textbooks, religious texts, and administrative manuals. Early Persian lithographed books—such as the copy offered here—are of great rarity, especially in such well-preserved condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eZubdat al-Hikayat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eزبدة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالحكايات\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e) is a collection of moral, didactic, and humorous anecdotes in Persian prose. The stories range from folk humor, including tales of Molla Nasreddin (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eملا\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eنصرالدین\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e), to instructive dialogues between sages and seekers, doctors and patients, and sultans and courtiers. The tone is alternately witty and contemplative, typical of the \u003ci\u003eadab\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eادب\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e) tradition. The text is lithographed in elegant \u003ci\u003enasta‘liq\u003c\/i\u003e script, with approximately 10 to 12 lines per page. The first page features a decorative headpiece with floral motifs surrounding the title.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBinding very slightly rubbed at the corners, The copy examined is clean and well preserved. Minor toning to the pages. Binding intact and handsomely preserved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSources: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGreen, Nile. \u003ci\u003eThe Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca\u003c\/i\u003e. University of California Press, 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMarashi, Afshin. “Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870–1940.” \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Washington Press\u003c\/i\u003e, 2008.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMiller, Michael. “Educational Reform and the Persian Press in Qajar Iran.” \u003ci\u003eIranian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 36, no. 2, 2003, pp. 207–229.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRypka, Jan. \u003ci\u003eHistory of Iranian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. Reidel Publishing Company, 1968.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSubtelny, M. E. “Socioeconomic Bases of Cultural Patronage under the Later Timurids.” \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 20, no. 4, 1988, pp. 479–505.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWalcher, Heidi A. \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the King: Zill al-Sultan and Isfahan under Qajar Rule\u003c\/i\u003e. I.B. Tauris, 2008.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50907501527383,"sku":"","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/d28f4fa7-6f79-4466-bfda-9ddd526235dd.png?v=1749639240"},{"product_id":"a-firsthand-encounter-with-arab-life-in-the-desert","title":"A firsthand encounter with Arab life in the desert","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGustave-Achille Guillaumet (1840-1887).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTente faits avec 2 nattes unies et cousues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e [Arab camp].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlgeria, ca. 1861-1867.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCharcoal and white chalk on paper. 29 × 45 cm. Signed \u003ci\u003eG. Guillaumet\u003c\/i\u003e lower right. Inscribed by Guillaumet upper right: \u003ci\u003e“tente faits avec 2 nattes unies et cousues”\u003c\/i\u003e; on the verso: \u003ci\u003e“60–90 \/ bleuté sans carte à cadre \/ Lundi matin …”\u003c\/i\u003e (probably framer’s notes).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e        This large drawing shows an Arab desert encampment, where a group of figures gather under a low tent built of mats and poles. The scene is rendered with swift charcoal lines, heightened with touches of white to suggest the play of shade against the glaring light of the Sahara. The figures are sketched with immediacy rather than detail, their gestures evoking the intimacy of daily life in the camp. An inscription in the artist’s hand describes the tent’s construction, underscoring his desire to record both atmosphere and observation. Created during Gustave-Achille Guillaumet’s travels in Algeria in the early 1860s, this work belongs to a rare group of on-the-spot drawings that later informed his studio paintings. Unlike many Orientalist contemporaries who sought spectacle, Guillaumet immersed himself deeply in Algerian life and is recognized for the sobriety, empathy, and authenticity of his vision; his extended stays among Arab communities gave him a rare, firsthand familiarity with their culture. Here, the viewer has the sensation of being present in the encampment itself. Larger and more fully realized than most of his field sketches, this sheet not only documents his working process but also reveals the qualities that made him one of the most distinctive interpreters of desert life in 19th-century French art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eslight foxing, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817167487319,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/100_1328-Bewerkt.png?v=1759322856"},{"product_id":"printed-naval-science-from-bulaq-knowledge-in-transit-in-the-arab-region","title":"Printed naval science from Bulaq: knowledge in transit in the Arab region","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[“Kapudân Antûn (Captain Antoine)”; translated by Meḥmet Efendi Mustafâ el-Tercüman(?)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eمجموعة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eفن\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالبحرية\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[Mecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye; Compendium of Naval Science].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBulaq [Cairo], Dâr al-Tibâ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ea al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eÂ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003emira \/ Bulaq Press, Muharram 1254 AH [March\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eApril 1838].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFolio, 30,5 x 20 cm. XIV, IV, 92, 48, 98, 176, 158 pp. With 10 folding lithographed plates, including maps, astronomical and geometrical diagrams, navigational instruments and tables. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWith Ottoman-Turkish ownership inscriptions to the front pastedown, including the formula “bu kitābın ṣāḥibi” (“the owner of this book”) and names including, apparently, Seyyid Davud, Mehmed, Ömer and Necib.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eContemporary full green \u003cspan style=\"color: #0e2841; mso-themecolor: text2;\"\u003ecalf\u003c\/span\u003e, with a small gilt floral ornament, spine plain, yellow edges. Binding rubbed and partly worn; endpapers lacking; first leaf partly loose; ownership note to inside upper board.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e               \u003c\/span\u003eA remarkable early example of scientific knowledge in transit through print in the Arab region: this Bulaq-printed manual with folding lithographed plates transforms European naval science into Ottoman-Turkish instruction for use in the Arabic maritime world. Produced in Cairo in Arabic, \u003ci\u003eMecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a book about navigation, but also a material witness to the movement of technical knowledge across languages, institutions and regions in the early nineteenth-century Arabic-speaking world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Bulaq press was the first Arab indigenous modern printing press and thus one of the foundational institutions of modern print culture in the Arab region. Although Arabic-script printing had earlier precedents, and Napoleon\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es expedition had briefly introduced printing to Egypt, Bulaq was the first sustained state press in Egypt, established under Mu\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003eammad \u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003eAl\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e Pasha. This work belongs to its early technical and military publishing programme and in its scope and presentation it is a particularly ambitious example.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis “first printing” (see colophon) offers a substantial compendium of naval and maritime science, prepared as a practical and instructional manual for navigation, seamanship and naval education. The work is arranged in five parts and covers the mathematical, astronomical and practical foundations of navigation, including geometry, calculation, the movements of celestial bodies, tides, hydrography, coastal phenomena and sailing directions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe book opens with an ornamental lithographic title-page headed \u003ci\u003eFenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e, “Maritime Science”, followed by the first part, \u003ci\u003eMabādi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e-i Fenn-i Ba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eriyye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e, “Principles of Maritime Science”. The opening defines navigation as the movement of a vessel from one point of the sea to another by means of calculated direction, distance and position. The work therefore begins with the mathematical disciplines necessary for navigation before proceeding to practical seamanship. Later sections treat the movements of the tides, the calculation of courses and distances, the determination of latitude and longitude, and the application of numerical tables to real navigational problems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe ten folding lithographed plates form the scientific apparatus of the book. They include a coastal chart with rhumb lines, circular astronomical diagrams, geometrical constructions, an armillary sphere, protractors and navigational instruments, including a sextant-like instrument. These plates are not merely decorative illustrations: the final pages of the text explicitly refer the reader to the following tables and diagrams for the calculation of latitude, longitude, distance, course and the point of arrival. The final printed statement, placed on the verso of the last folding plate, records the printing at Cairo in Muharram 1254 AH and states that this was the first printing. It also names this book as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eKitāb al-Ba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003er\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Book of the Sea).\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAs such, \u003ci\u003eMecmûa-i Fenn-i Bahriye\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a manual of seamanship. It is a printed course in the sciences of navigation and one of the clearest examples of how early nineteenth-century Egyptian printing could turn specialised European knowledge into locally usable technical instruction. It stands at the intersection of European naval science, Ottoman-Turkish translation, Egyptian state reform and the emergence of modern technical print culture in the Arab world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBinding a bit rubbed. Contents generally in excellent clean and bright condition; some spotting to the blank edges of some folding plates, minor foxing to some index leaves. Two contemporary inscriptions on front paste-down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHeyworth-Dunne, J. “Printing and Translations under Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eammad ‘Alī of Egypt: The Foundation of Modern Arabic.” \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 72, no. 4, 1940, pp. 325–349.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eİhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. “The Bulaq Press and the Turkish Books Printed There.” \u003ci\u003eThe Turks in Egypt and Their Cultural Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Humphrey Davies, American University in Cairo Press, 2012, pp. 323–344.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eVerdery, Richard N. “The Publications of the Būlāq Press under Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eammad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e of Egypt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Aptos Display'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Oriental Society\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 91, no. 1, 1971, pp. 129–132.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53862558368087,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/bcc73a5e-2f8f-4a4c-aeff-6608f598c917_ec24c98d-8c37-4b2b-9a4d-a9d813b9d0ae.png?v=1782753920"},{"product_id":"1711-ottoman-arabic-manuscript-on-heirs-shares-and-islamic-inheritance-law","title":"1711 Ottoman Arabic manuscript on heirs, shares, and Islamic inheritance law","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eal-Sajāwandī [Sirāj al-Milla Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd al-Rash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ed al-Saj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ewand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e; dates unknown].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eal-Sir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003ejiyya f\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e al-far\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003ei\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, completed in 1123 AH \/ 1711 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°, Arabic manuscript on paper. 120 leaves. Arabic text in black ink with red rubrication, red overlining, and frequent red textual markers. Approximately 17 lines per page. Opening two pages written within ruled frames with gilt and coloured bands, red separators, and gold roundel markers; later leaves in red-ruled panels, followed by plainer unframed pages. Numerous marginal notes, corrections, inheritance calculations, and small schematic diagrams throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in brown morocco over boards, with blind-ruled decoration, worn from use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA dated Ottoman scholarly manuscript of al-Sirājiyya fī al-farā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, one of the best-known Hanafi texts on the Islamic law of inheritance. The work explains the formal division of estates among heirs: children, parents, spouses, siblings, agnatic relatives, and other legally recognized claimants. It \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas made for practical legal study, not display alone. The margins preserve the traces of use by later readers: glosses, corrections, fractional calculations, and small inheritance diagrams showing how shares were to be distributed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe decorated opening gives the author as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eسراج\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالملّة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eمحمد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eبن\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eعبد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالرشيد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالسجاوندي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e — Sirāj al-Milla Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd al-Rash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ed al-Saj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ewand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e. The text opens with the basmala, followed by praise of God and the Prophet, and then a traditional saying urging the study and teaching of the laws of inheritance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efor they are half of knowledge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e This opening is especially appropriate for a manual of farā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, the technical discipline of inheritance law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe first opening is attractively presented, with a large black basmala set within a decorated panel of gilt, green, red, and orange bands. The facing page continues in a matching framed layout. Thereafter the manuscript gradually becomes more utilitarian: the early leaves retain red ruled frames, while later leaves are plainer, with red ink used mainly for headings, emphasis, and textual division. This changing presentation reinforces the character of the manuscript as a working legal textbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe text remains consistent throughout as a manual of inheritance law, discussing the distribution of shares, exclusions and substitutions among heirs, corrections of inheritance calculations, and family-relationship cases involving parents, children, spouses, siblings, and more distant relatives. Several margins contain worked numerical examples and small schematic share tables, showing that the manuscript was actively consulted and studied. The colophon is preserved and dates the copy to 1123 AH \/ 1711 CE. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe preliminary blanks preserve additional later paratext. These include a large Arabic title inscription, Ottoman Turkish notes, and later ownership or reading annotations. One Ottoman Turkish note appears to refer to visiting a sacred relic or site in Egypt; another seems to be a short moral or devotional maxim. These notes are not central to the identification of the text, but they add to the manuscript’s history of use and circulation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e binding slightly rubbed, worn at the top of spine. First quire partially loose at the gutter, with exposed sewing; leaves with recurring upper-margin dampstaining, occasional wear. Text generally bright and well legible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53974957752663,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/05d779e9-4d09-4c98-8c1b-47a45211e377.png?v=1783592461"},{"product_id":"a-1638-ottoman-manuscript-on-the-art-of-arabic-eloquence","title":"A 1638 Ottoman manuscript on the art of Arabic eloquence","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“al-Khaṭāʾī” [Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUthmān al-Khaṭāʾī, attributed; dates unknown, active by 1048 AH \/ 1638 CE].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eḤāshiyat al-Khaṭāʾī ʿalā al-Mukhtaṣar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, probably Anatolia, completed Jumādā al-Ākhira 1048 AH \/ October–November 1638 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8° (20 x 12,5 cm), Arabic manuscript on paper. 48 extant leaves, foliated 2–49. Arabic text in black ink with red rubrication, red overlining, and frequent red textual markers. Approximately 25 lines per page. Catchwords in the lower margins. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in an Islamic-style binding, probably Ottoman or later, with mottled tan paper-covered boards, dark brown leather spine and edge reinforcements, and a preserved fore-edge flap.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e           \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA dated Ottoman scholarly manuscript on Arabic rhetoric, copied in 1048 AH \/ 1638 CE. The manuscript preserves al-Khaṭāʾī’s commentary on one of the most important Arabic rhetoric textbooks used in Ottoman higher education: al-Taftāzānī’s al-Mukhtaṣar, better known as Mukhtaṣar al-Maʿānī. This was an advanced teaching text, studied in the madrasa curriculum for the formal analysis of eloquence, meaning, style, and argument in Arabic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe copy was clearly made for serious scholarly use: it is densely written, carefully marked in red, and structured around short quoted lemmata followed by explanation. Although the foliation begins with the number 2, the text itself appears complete at the beginning, opening normally with the basmala and introductory praise. The manuscript is especially interesting because it preserves its dated colophon, repeated title notes, ownership inscriptions, seal impressions, and later European notes attempting to identify the text. The manuscript is repeatedly identified on the endleaves as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eخطائي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eعلى\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالمختصر\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKhaṭāʾī ʿalā al-Mukhtaṣar\u003c\/i\u003e) and in longer notes as a ḥāshiya on \u003ci\u003eMukhtaṣar al-Maʿānī\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe final colophon is preserved and dates the completion of the manuscript to Jumādā al-Ākhira 1048 AH. The closing lines read in part: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eفتمّ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eبحمد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالله\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالملك\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالوهاب\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eوقت\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالعصر\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eيوم\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالأحد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eفي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eشهر\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eجمادى\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eالآخرة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eسنة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eثمان\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eوأربعين\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eوألف\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e — “Completed, praise be to God, the Generous King ... at the time of ʿaṣr on Sunday, in the month of Jumādā al-Ākhira, in the year one thousand and forty-eight.” No place of copying is securely visible in the colophon; on present evidence, the safest localization is Ottoman lands, probably Anatolia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe endleaves preserve substantial later paratext: repeated Arabic title inscriptions, ownership notes, rubbed seal impressions, and later European catalogue annotations. One ownership inscription appears to record the manuscript among the books of Ḥusayn b. Darwīsh, followed by a pious supplication. Several seal impressions are present, including small circular and larger rubbed impressions. A later French pencil note identifies “Hataï” and appears to associate the name with Shah Ismāʿīl Ṣafavī, almost certainly a later confusion caused by the shared name or pen-name Khaṭāʾī. The Arabic title notes and the text itself identify the manuscript not as a poetic work by Shah Ismāʿīl, but as al-Khaṭāʾī’s ḥāshiya on \u003ci\u003eal-Mukhtaṣar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding worn but intact. Endleaves heavily used, with dampstaining, smudging and owners’ inscriptions. Text leaves generally very good and bright, well legible, though a few pages toned. Damp stain on the top 1\/5 of the last ten leaves. Possibly lacking an initial preliminary or title leaf, though the main text appears to begin complete with the basmala.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53975080337751,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/a4ebb35e-1567-4d0b-8ffd-ce75340557ba.png?v=1783593754"},{"product_id":"a-1602-3-ottoman-manuscript-on-arabic-morphology","title":"A 1602–3 Ottoman Manuscript on Arabic Morphology","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd Allāh b. Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad, known as Naqra-kār [attributed.]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eShar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e al-Shāfiya.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, probably Anatolia, main section completed in Shawwāl 1011 AH \/ March–April 1603 CE; opening section later supplied, perhaps 18th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°, ca. 20 x 12 cm. Arabic manuscript on European paper. Composite codex of 173 leaves: the first 24 leaves supplied in a later, larger naskh hand, followed by 149 leaves in an earlier, smaller Ottoman naskh hand. Text in black ink, with red rubrication, red overlining, and frequent red textual markers; mostly 19 lines per page. The opening leaves are more formally presented, with gilt framing to the first leaves; the remaining text is written within red-ruled panels. Numerous marginal and interlinear glosses throughout, in several hands, showing sustained scholarly use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in a dark brown Islamic-style leather binding with fore-edge flap, gilt-ruled borders, and a gilt stamped central medallion with radiating finials; the flap bears a matching gilt medallion. Pink paper pastedowns, with later repairs and a modern French bibliographical note pasted to the front pastedown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA substantial Ottoman scholarly manuscript of Naqra-kār’s commentary on Ibn al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājib’s \u003ci\u003eal-Shāfiya\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the central works of the Arabic grammatical curriculum and among the most important pre-modern texts for the study of \u003ci\u003eṣarf\u003c\/i\u003e, or Arabic morphology. The manuscript preserves a densely written teaching copy of a technical commentary concerned with the internal structure of Arabic words: roots and derived forms, verbal and nominal patterns, inflectional changes, weak letters, substitutions, assimilations, elisions, and the formal rules by which Arabic words are generated and transformed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eUnlike works on syntax, which examine the arrangement of words in sentences, \u003ci\u003eal-Shāfiya\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the architecture of the word itself. It explains how meaning is produced through pattern, augmentation, contraction, phonetic change, and grammatical derivation. For this reason, the work occupied an important place in the Ottoman madrasa curriculum, where mastery of Arabic morphology was essential for the advanced study of law, theology, rhetoric, Qur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eanic commentary, and the classical Arabic sciences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe present codex is especially notable as a composite but early scholarly copy. The main section was completed in Shawwāl 1011 AH \/ March–April 1603 CE, while the opening twenty-four leaves were supplied later, probably in in 1744–45. The contrast between the two hands records the manuscript’s continued use and preservation over time. Numerous marginal and interlinear glosses, corrections, and explanatory notes show that the volume was not merely copied for storage or display, but actively read, taught from, and studied by successive owners and students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThere are several ownership and paratextual notes. A clear ownership inscription reads: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eتملكه\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالعبد\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالفقير\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eإلى\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eربه\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالغني\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالشيخ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eخيري\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eحيدر\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eالكردي\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eسنة\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e١١٥٧\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, “Owned by the poor servant, in need of his rich Lord, al-Shaykh Khayrī \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eaydar al-Kurdī, year 1157 AH.” This corresponds to 1744–45 CE and may relate to the later phase in which the opening leaves were supplied or the volume repaired. A small seal impression is present below the inscription, but is worn. Additional title and price notes occur on the endleaves and fore-edge, including references to \u003ci\u003eShar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e al-Shāfiya\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Binding rubbed, spine damaged, flap barely holding. End-leaves with some soiling, wear and staining. Slight worming in the blank margins of the last ca. 20 leaves and slight browing. Otherwise contents in good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53975186342231,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/b92b0270-9d1e-48f5-8ecd-76e07a986a30.png?v=1783595569"},{"product_id":"a-1671-1672-ottoman-arabic-hanafi-legal-manuscript-for-judges","title":"A 1671-1672 Ottoman Arabic Hanafi Legal Manuscript for Judges","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī (active by 1051 AH \/ 1641–42 CE.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003easan al-Qaramānī [scribe].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eImdād al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eukkām wa-mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003en qu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eāt al-Islām.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, probably Anatolia, copied by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003easan al-Qaramānī, completed in Sha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003en 1082 AH \/ December 1671\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJanuary 1672 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8° (19.5 x 13.5 cm), Arabic manuscript on paper. 243 folios, numbered in Arabic numerals. Arabic text in black ink with red rubrication, red overlining, and frequent red textual markers, written in a neat Ottoman nasta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003el\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eq hand, mostly 27 lines per page. Table of chapters at the beginning, arranged in black and red. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWith extensive marginal notes, ownership inscriptions, seal impressions, and later Ottoman Turkish annotations throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in plain limp brown leather with writing on the edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA later Ottoman Turkish \u003ci\u003efarā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e text, dated 1167 AH \/ 1753–54 CE, was added to the manuscript; its date coincides with an ownership note of A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003emad Najīb\/Ahmed Necib b. Wāfī(?) Sulaymān Efendi al-Kutāhī, suggesting that the addition belongs to his period of ownership, though authorship is not established.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe main work is by Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e and was copied in 1082 AH by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003easan al-Qaramānī. It is followed by an anonymous Ottoman Turkish text on Islamic inheritance law (\u003ci\u003efarā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e), dated 1167 AH \/ 1753–54 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e               \u003c\/span\u003eA substantial dated Ottoman manuscript of \u003ci\u003eImdād al-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eukkām wa-mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003en qu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eāt al-Islām\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, a Hanafi legal compendium for judges and administrators. The author identifies himself in the opening as “the poor servant ... Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, one of the judges of Islam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e (Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e min qu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eāt al-Islām). The work belongs to the practical Hanafi legal tradition, gathering rulings, procedural guidance, and selected questions useful to qā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eīs, governors, and officials responsible for applying Islamic law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscript opens with an extensive table of contents, listing the books, chapters, and sections of the work. The text cites or draws on major Hanafi authorities, including \u003ci\u003eal-Hidāya\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī Khān\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, \u003ci\u003eal-Khāniyya\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eal-Wiqāya\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKanz al-daqā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eiq\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMajma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e al-ba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003erayn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, and related legal manuals. The red rubrication marks chapter divisions, key terms, and cited authorities, giving the manuscript the appearance of a working judicial reference book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e was a Hanafi jurist and judge active in the mid-17th century. In the opening of \u003ci\u003eImdād al-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eukkām\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e he describes himself as “one of the judges of Islam,” and the work reflects this professional context: it is a practical compendium of Hanafi rulings for judges and administrators. His biography remains obscure, but manuscript records place the composition of the work in or by 1051 AH \/ 1641–42 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe colophon is preserved and records the completion of the copy in Sha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003en 1082 AH \/ 1671\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e72 CE, by the hand of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos; mso-hansi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e b. al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003easan al-Qaramānī. The main Arabic text is followed by a shorter Ottoman Turkish text on Islamic inheritance law (\u003ci\u003efarā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e), opening with the basmala and a red heading mentioning \u003ci\u003efarā\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʾ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḍ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e. This appended text ends with a separate dated note in 1167 AH \/ 1753–54 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe volume preserves rich later paratext. Several Ottoman ownership inscriptions and seal impressions occur on the endleaves and margins. One important Ottoman Turkish note appears to belong to A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003emad Najīb\/Ahmed Necib b. Wāfī(?) Sulaymān Efendi al-Kutāhī, dated 12 Rabī\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e II 1167 AH \/ 6 February 1754, close in date to the appended inheritance text. Together these notes show that the manuscript remained in active Ottoman legal and scholarly use for several generations after its copying.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Binding worn, with rubbing and small losses. Smell label on front cover. Endleaves soiled end loosening, occasional edge wear, some paratextual notes and seal impressions rubbed or partly illegible. Main text generally in very good condition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53975424762199,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/4ec9025c-4155-4847-994b-2b6da2b62ca7.png?v=1783600086"},{"product_id":"a-1674-75-ottoman-turkish-nbsp-tuḥfat-al-ḥaramayn-predating-nabi-s-pilgrimage-account","title":"A 1674–75 Ottoman Turkish\u0026nbsp;Tuḥfat al-Ḥaramayn, predating Nābī’s pilgrimage account","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eal-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad Efendi [scribe]; [Yūsuf Nābī Efendi, 1052–1124 AH \/ 1642–1712 CE (?)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efat al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earamayn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman lands, place not stated, colophon dated 1085 AH \/ 1674–75 CE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: #ee0000; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOttoman Turkish manuscript on European watermarked paper (ca. 21,5 x 16,5 cm). 73 leaves, text in black ink, mostly 19 lines per page, in a neat Turkish naskh hand, with catchwords.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBound in a probably contemporary or early Ottoman-style brown leather binding, covers blind-tooled with ruled panels and small rosette\/star stamps, with writing on foot-edge and decorative gilt floral paper pastedowns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eAn Ottoman Turkish manuscript of \u003ci\u003eTu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efat al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earamayn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, “The Gift of the Two Sanctuaries,” a literary and devotional text on the holy places of Mecca and Medina, best known in Ottoman Turkish literary history as Yūsuf Nābī’s famous hajj narrative of 1089–90 AH \/ 1678–79 CE. The present manuscript, however, is clearly dated in the colophon to 1085 AH \/ 1674–75 CE and names the scribe as al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eājj Mu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eammad Efendi, \u003ci\u003ekātib-i waqf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIf this is Nābī’s text, the date makes the manuscript exceptionally early and raises a significant chronological question for the manuscript tradition. If it is not Nābī’s text, it remains an early Ottoman Turkish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earamayn manuscript bearing the same title, later associated with Nābī’s more famous work. In either case, the manuscript is of considerable interest for the textual and devotional culture of Ottoman pilgrimage literature.\u003cbr\u003eThe title \u003ci\u003eTu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḥ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003efat al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earamayn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e is stated in the front, the colophon and the fore-edge. Later French bibliographical notes on the front pastedown and on a loose inserted slip identify the manuscript as a copy of Nābī’s celebrated pilgrimage account, however in the manuscript there is no clear internal authorial statement naming Yūsuf Nābī.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe text opens with an ornate religious and moral introduction in Ottoman Turkish, invoking God, the Prophet, forgiveness, devotion, and the spiritual merit of pilgrimage. Later sections move into the main \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earamayn material, with descriptions of the Ka\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eba, Bayt al-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eḤ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003earām, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eṭ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eawāf, Ṣafā and Marwa, gates, stations, sacred architecture, and rites of visitation. Near the end the text includes farewell and salām passages, giving the manuscript the character of both a travel account and a devotional guide to the holy places.\u003cbr\u003eThe preliminary leaves preserve additional traces of ownership and later study, including a black oval seal apparently reading \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eʿ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbd al-Qādir and a longer Ottoman Turkish ownership or warning note.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e tear in spine, binding creased and slightly rubbed but otherwise good. Structurally fragile, with exposed sewing, split gutters, and loose or loosening gatherings. Endleaves and outer leaves stained, creased, torn, and partly detached, with losses near the gutter and edges. Main text generally well legible despite dampstaining, soiling, smudging, edge wear, and occasional offsetting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53975533912407,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/c5b925a9-6652-419b-be47-79105536682c.png?v=1783601139"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/collections\/Maggio_4.jpg?v=1703150893","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/collections\/middle-east.oembed?page=3","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}