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Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-Siraj by Sahnun b. 'Uthman al-Wa…
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Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-Siraj by Sahnun b. 'Uthman al-Wa…
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Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
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Description
Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-Siraj by Sahnun b. 'Uthman al-Wansharisi
North Africa, probably Algeria, dated AH 1018 (AD 1609-1610)
Arabic manuscript on paper, 18 leaves, calligraphied in Maghribi script in sepia ink, headings in red, laid out in 33 to 34 lines per page.
The colophon indicates that this copy was completed on the first of 20 Dhu al-Qa'da 1018 AH. The copyist is named as Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mizyan al-Zawawi, whose nisba refers to the region of Zawāwa (Kabylia).
Bound in brown morocco with flap.
26 × 18.5 cm (10.2 × 7.3 in.)
The manuscript contains Sahnun b. 'Uthman al-Wansharisi's commentary on the astronomical treatise al-Siraj fi 'ilm al-falak by the Maghrebi scholar 'Abd al-Rahman al-Akhdari (d. circa 1575). The work is part of the scientific tradition of the Maghreb, where astronomy treatises were the subject of commentaries for teaching purposes.
The singular interest of this manuscript lies in its dating: copied in AH 1018 (AD 1609-1610) by a copyist from the Zawawa region (Kabylia). As far as we know, it is the second attested example of this high dating, which until now has only been established by manuscript no. 1114 in the Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux (copy dated AH 1118 / 1706). Our manuscript not only predates the Bordeaux manuscript by a century, but is almost contemporary with the completion of the work by the author himself - a copy made barely two years after the original writing. As such, it is a precious witness to regional distribution in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Sahnun b. 'Uthman al-Wansharisi, Mufid al-muhtaj fi sharh al-Siraj - a commentary on the astronomical treatise al-Siraj fi 'ilm al-falak of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Akhdari (d. circa 1575). North Africa, probably Algeria, dated 1018 H. / 1609-1610. Arabic manuscript on paper in maghribi script in sepia ink, with red rubrications, 33 to 34 lines per page; the colophon records that the copy was completed in 1018 H. by Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mizyan al-Zawawi, whose nisba refers to the Zawawa region of Kabylia.
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