TWO MAGHRIBI SHARH MANUSCRIPTS: COMMENTARIES AND ANTHOLOGIES
Morocco, North Africa, mid-19th century

Arabic manuscripts on paper, comprising a manuscript with 200ff., plus one fly leaf, each folio with 38ll. of sepia ink maghribi script, significant words in red, catchwords, dated Sunday 8 Shaban 1254(?) AH (28 October 1838 AD), set within red rules, in brown calf edge binding, the text panel 23cm x 14.5cm, the folio 28.8cm x 17.5cm; and another, 171ff., plus two fly leaves, each folio with 26ll. of sepia ink maghribi script, certain words in red and blue, catchwords, dated Jamadi Ul Awwal 1274 AH (August-September 1857 AD), in dark red blind-tooled flapped calf binding, the central lobed cartouches overlaid with blue, the folio 23cm x 17.8cm.