Arabic Tales [Anthology] various texts in 8 different hands c.1840

Arabic tales. Anthology with numerous different texts. Arabic handwriting from at least 8 different hands. Mostly Nasta’liq in black and occasionally red ink on gelatinized handmade papers of various creations. Approx. 200 sheets. Writing space approx. 17 x 10 to 20 x 12 cm. Format approx. 25.6 x 14.8 cm. In places with numerous comments and marginalia. flap band d. Z. (stronger signs of wear, stains, edge damage, missing parts, abrasions, chips, etc.) made of reddish-brown camel leather with three blind-embossed arabesques on the front and back covers. Arab region around 1840.

It is probably an individually compiled anthology with numerous different texts, some poetic, some religious, by various authors, including Al-Hafiz Al-Dhahabi, Abu Ahmad Ad al-Aziz ibn Ubhur al-Majaludi al Basri, Muhammed ibn al-Munni, Ibn Shayban, Mecca, the Kaaba is mentioned again and again and Suran verses are interspersed. Some of the texts appear to have been supplemented, restored to the paper and replaced on new pages, some larger sheets of the numerous different batches of paper were folded in, and there is a tiny oval stamp at the beginning.

One passage reads something like: “She said: What’s wrong with you, Messenger of God? He was disappointed that he told her. She said: Kurds, drink until you have a choice. So he said: Eid is like : The month has come. For me a boy has not yet grown up, and she has not conceived, O Husayn. On the authority of Ibn Abbas, the king who came to the Messenger of Muhammad, may God bless and give him peace. He said: after the killing of Al-Hussein, peace be upon him, there was a good reaction, and the faithful spirit spread his wings, crying and shouting. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and give him peace […]”. – Several sheets with partly backed edge damage, a few small worm holes, partly with old restorations, trimmings and additions, occasionally stronger, otherwise hardly significant wet edges at the beginning and at the end, overall slightly browned.

Arabic tales. Anthology with numerous different texts. Arabic handwriting from at least 8 different hands. Mostly Nasta’liq in black and occasionally red ink on gelatinized handmade papers of various creations. Approx. 200 sheets. Writing space approx. 17 x 10 to 20 x 12 cm. Format approx. 25.6 x 14.8 cm. In places with numerous comments and marginalia. flap band d. Z. (stronger signs of wear, stains, edge damage, missing parts, abrasions, chips, etc.) made of reddish-brown camel leather with three blind-embossed arabesques on the front and back covers. Arab region around 1840.

It is probably an individually compiled anthology with numerous different texts, some poetic, some religious, by various authors, including Al-Hafiz Al-Dhahabi, Abu Ahmad Ad al-Aziz ibn Ubhur al-Majaludi al Basri, Muhammed ibn al-Munni, Ibn Shayban, Mecca, the Kaaba is mentioned again and again and Suran verses are interspersed. Some of the texts appear to have been supplemented, restored to the paper and replaced on new pages, some larger sheets of the numerous different batches of paper were folded in, and there is a tiny oval stamp at the beginning.

One passage reads something like: “She said: What’s wrong with you, Messenger of God? He was disappointed that he told her. She said: Kurds, drink until you have a choice. So he said: Eid is like : The month has come. For me a boy has not yet grown up, and she has not conceived, O Husayn. On the authority of Ibn Abbas, the king who came to the Messenger of Muhammad, may God bless and give him peace. He said: after the killing of Al-Hussein, peace be upon him, there was a good reaction, and the faithful spirit spread his wings, crying and shouting. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and give him peace […]”. – Several sheets with partly backed edge damage, a few small worm holes, partly with old restorations, trimmings and additions, occasionally stronger, otherwise hardly significant wet edges at the beginning and at the end, overall slightly browned.