AL QAMUS AL-MUHIT WAL-QABUS AL-WASIT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1800 AL QAMUS AL-MUHIT WAL-QABUS AL-WASIT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1800 AL QAMUS AL-MUHIT WAL-QABUS AL-WASIT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1800 AL QAMUS AL-MUHIT WAL-QABUS AL-WASIT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1800

AL QAMUS AL-MUHIT WAL-QABUS AL-WASIT, TURKEY, CIRCA 1800

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Muhammad Bin Ya’Kub Al-Firuzabadi Handwritten Arabic dictionary of 545 folios of 33 lines per page in two assembled parts and two different hands. The first part ends at folio 256A, calligraphed in beautiful and regular black naskh with larger words or letters in black and red for the first part and in black, red and green for the second. These chapters (fasl) are in large black naskh. An illuminated frontispiece with floral decoration adorns the cover page of the manuscript. Binding with volute flaps in red morocco stamped with flower decoration and inscribed in golden letters: ‘Ali ‘Abol al-Razaq’. Used case. The first two folios noted, stains and soiling, some restorations. The owner’s mark refers to Ali Abdul-Razzaq (1888-1966), a famous Egyptian academic, who studied at Oxford. 29 by 20 cm.