'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Badr al-Din abu ‘Ali Muhammed ibn Ibrahim 'Izzaddin ibn Jama’a al-Kinani al-Shafi’i (d.1366 AD), Mukhtasar sirat al-Nabi (an abridgment on the life of the Prophet), Egypt, Mamluk, dated 745 AH/1345 AD

Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 63 leaves plus 1 flyleaf, 7 lines to the page written in naskh script in black ink, titles written in blue and red, in brown stamped leather binding

In generally good condition, the margins are overall clean, minor stains throughout, some pages with restoration affecting mainly the upper borders, one page with a loss on the upper border, the calligraphy clean, as viewed.
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'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Badr al-Din abu ‘Ali Muhammed ibn Ibrahim 'Izzaddin ibn Jama’a al-Kinani al-Shafi’i was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1294 AD. He became Qadi in Egypt in 1337 until 1348, when he moved to Mecca where he died in 1366. Another contemporaneous copy of this manuscript, dated only ten years earlier (735 AH/1335 AD) is now in Cairo, Ind, Off. 1038. See also C. Brockelmann, GAL II. 86 (4) and GAL S, II. 81 no.3.

The present manuscript was produced during the lifetime of the author in 735 AH/1345 AD, and it seems likely that the author himself inscribed the manuscript on the title page, as witnessed by very similar hand-writing found in a colophon published in Khair-ud-din ibn Muhammad, Al-A'Alam, Vol.IV, Beirut, 2007, p.26.