SHAHAB ED DIN AHMAD BIN IDRIS AL QURAFI (Egyptian Maliki jurist 1228-1285 AH): KITAB AL-DHAKHIRAH (The Stored Treasure) North Africa, dated 27 Dhu al-Hijjah 1315 AH (19 May 1898) Arabic manuscript on French paper, 98ff., each folio with 23ll., of maghribi script, in black and a profusion of polychrome inks, catchwords, text markers of dots in a number of bright colours, within red ruling, text including a concentric zodiac chart and a compass within illuminated surrounds, the paper water-marked F. BARJON A MOIRANS (Isere) in brown blind-tooled flapped calf binding, the text panel 28cm x 16.5cm and the folio 34cm x 22cm.