A KITAB AL-MIZAN AL-SHA'RANIYA BY 'ABD AL-WAHHAB BIN AHMAD AL-SHA'RANI (EGYPT 1492-1565) Ottoman Provinces, dated 1856 A treatise on the four Sunni law schools of Islam with several diagrams, Arabic manuscript on paper, 397ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 29ll. of black ink naskh script with red marks, within red rules, four folios with colourful illuminations and charts, with marbled paper on the inside of the flap, within tooled and gilt flapped binding stamped with an elegant tughra within an oval cartouche, the text panel 23.5cm x 12cm and the folio 29.5cm x 21cm. Two similar manuscripts have been successfully sold at Christie's South Kensington, 28 April 2017, lot 174, and Bonham's London, 24 April 2018, lot 121.