PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHY / MARGINAL COMMENTARIES: حاشية ملا عبد الله [Commentaries to Molla Abddullah]

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PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHY / MARGINAL COMMENTARIES: حاشية ملا عبد الله [Commentaries to Molla Abddullah]

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An Arabic lithographed text on the refinement of logic with commentaries, architected in various geometric forms by several authors, with an excellent bibliophile provenance.

 

Small 4°, [124 pp.] lithographed text with interleaved small-sized sheets with lithographed text, [29 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary dark green goat and brown spine with old paper label, minor water-staining to the margins of the first and last pages, minor wear to the otherwise in a good, clean condition, inserted note with the title and author, hand-written in brown ink).

 

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ملا عبد الله (Mulla Abdullah bin Shihab al-Din al-. Husayn al-Yazdi also Mawla Abdullah bin Shihab al-Din al-Husayn al-Yazdi, died 981 AH / 1565 AD).محمد على (Mohammad Ali), Author of the Commentaries; الطلاب محمد على (Students of Muhammad Ali, Authors of Commentaries of the Second Part).

 

The book is a prime example of different variations of marginal commentaries and full-page commentaries in Arabic texts. Lithographed in Tehran, the book contains hundreds of various commentaries in diverse geometrical forms, and sometimes printed on additional pieces of paper.

Provenience: From a collection of a French orientalist, translator, politician and book collector Charles-Henri-Auguste Schefer (1820 – 1898). His collection and estate were sold in 1898 and 1899. A hand written-note with the title and the name of the author, inserted in the book, is typical for this collection and is attributed to Schefer.

We could not find any institutional examples on Worldcat. One example of the book is scanned on-line: تحميل كتاب حاشيه ميرزا عليرضا بر حاشيه ملا عبدالله ل تفتازاني, مسعود بن عمر, ۷۲۲ -۷۹۲؟ق. pdf (ketabpedia.com).

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