Muhibb-ad-Din Abu'l–'Abbas Ahmad bin 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abi Bakr al-Tabari al-Makki al- Shafi'i (d.694 AH/1295 AD), Al-Qira li-qasa'idi umm al-qura (An account of the ceremonies connected with the pilgrimage to Mecca), signed by Ahmad bin Muhammad bin 'Ali al-Mu'adab al-Shafi'i, Near East, dated 819 AH/1416-17 AD

Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 288 leaves plus a flyleaf, ff.50-64 later replacement leaves, 25 lines to the page, written in Naskh script in black ink, keywords underlined and outlined in red, occasional marginal glosses, later red morocco binding with tooled decoration, with flap

In generall good overall condition, a few repairs to binding, some waterstaining and smudges, as viewed.
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Another copy of this work  dated to the fourteenth century and collated with the author's autograph is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see A.J. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vol.I, Dublin, 1955, p.30, no.3077.

 

Brockelmann, I, 361; Suppl.I , 615.