Description of Columbia University. MS Or 388 Folio: Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr.

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A forgery by Giuseppe Vella of what purport to be documents exchanged between several Norman rulers of Sicily and Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. The text is written in a mixture of Arabic and what is probably Maltese. Vella translated this work into Italian and published it in 1793 under the title Libro del consiglio di Egitto.

Arabic Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr. كتاب ديوان مصر Vella, Giuseppe, -1815 bookseller Probsthain & Co [1] Kitāb Diwān Miṣr

paper

216, iv leaves : 282 x 210 (190 x 135) mm, bound to 282 x 215 mm 30 long lines. Written in a maghribi in reddish ink; pointed.

Leather flap style binding with metal clasp; gold tooling on boards and flap; Kitāb Dīwān Miṣr (title) in gold on spine [detached]; yellow, red, and black decorated endpapers; speckled edges.

Composed and published in 1793, in Palermo, Italy.

1793 Palermo, Italy Sold by Probsthain & Co.; listed as number 1345 in Probsthain's Oriental Catalogue no. 20, part II (1910) (note laid in). Manuscripts, Arabic--Forgeries Manuscripts, Arabic Forgery of manuscripts--Specimens Manuscripts--1793 Early works to 1800 Forgeries (derivative objects) Manuscripts (documents) Codices (bound manuscripts) Flap bindings (Binding) Decorated paper bindings (Binding) Leather bindings (Binding) Flap bindings (Binding) Islamic bindings (Binding)