MUHAMMAD B. ISMAʿIL AL-BUKHĀRĪ (d. 870 AD): AL-JĀMIʿ AL-SAHi - Lot 78

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MUHAMMAD B. ISMAʿIL AL-BUKHĀRĪ (d. 870 AD): AL-JĀMIʿ AL-SAHi - Lot 78
MUHAMMAD B. ISMAʿIL AL-BUKHĀRĪ (d. 870 AD): AL-JĀMIʿ AL-SAHiH, VOLUME ONE, NORTH AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY. Arabic manuscript on watermarked vellum, comprising 230 ff. and 21 ff. of endpapers; the text, consisting of 19 to 21 lines per page, is set within a frame bordered by three red and blue lines, copied in black ink in small-sized Maghribī script. The work comprises 22 books (kutub), including 6 titles written in gold; the section titles (abwāb) are executed in large-modulus Maghribī Thuluth and inscribed alternately in polychrome inks of red, blue, and black. The volume opens with an illuminated frontispiece in shades of green, blue, white, and red, featuring floral motifs accented with gold that accompany the work’s incipit within a poly-lobed frame in Maghribī thuluth script: “How did the revelation begin to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, and the words of Allah, exalted be His name: innā awḥaynā ilayka kamā awḥaynā ilā Nūḥ wa al-nabiyyīna min baʿdihi” (“How did the revelation begin to the Messenger of Allah—may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him—and the words of Allah—exalted be His remembrance—: ‘We have revealed to you as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him.’”) End of the volume on the *Kitāb al-Buyūʿ*, accompanied by a concluding note. Beautifully crafted original binding in cardboard covered with embossed and gilded garnet-colored leather; the covers and flap are adorned with a central mandorla of beige leather embossed in gold, flanked by two smaller ones connected by a chain motif, lobed spandrels with gilded floral decoration, a frame embossed with gold leaf using a fine tool, interior lining in brown-green leather with cold-stamped decoration, spine and flaps reinforced with garnet-red leather patches. Condition: damaged. Folio: 26.2 × 20 cm; Writing area: 17.9 × 11 cm.
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