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al-Shifā bi-taʻrīf huqūq al-Mustafá
Object: manuscript
Author: ʻIyād ibn Mūsá
Place of Publication: Istanbul
Date: ~1852
ʻIyād ibn Mūsá was a Spanish author, traditionalist, and faqīh (legal scholar) of the Mālikī school. This manuscript is one of the author’s best-known works and is a biography of the Prophet.
This is a full leather binding with an envelope flap. The boards are attached at the spine with the two-piece technique. The sewing is likely link stitch sewing with 2 stations. Each section consists of five bifolia. The text is written within gold and black framed panels on thin, burnished paper. The textblock edges are painted in a repeating pattern similar to the patterning on the cover, pastedown, and flyleaves.
The book had extensive page splitting as well as a detached board, so the treatment was focused on stabilization for handling.
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