THREE SCIENTIFIC TREATISES
THREE SCIENTIFIC TREATISES

ANATOLIA AND OTTOMAN PROVINCES, ONE DATED AH 1039/1629-30 AD

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THREE SCIENTIFIC TREATISES
ANATOLIA AND OTTOMAN PROVINCES, ONE DATED AH 1039/1629-30 AD
Comprising a long volume on medicine and drugs, possibly Ibn al-Wadid's Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada, 414ff., each folio with 19ll. of black naskh script, some words picked out in red, with catchwords, colophon signed 'Arab Husayn bin Mawlana Miran al-Kunyani and dated Ramadan AH 1039, incomplete at beginning, in 18th century light green morocco binding; the Banu Musa brothers's (fl. 9th century AD) Kitab ma'rifat misahat al-ashkal al-basita, on geometry, followed by a work by Ibn al-Haytham (possibly), three commentaries on Theodosius, 55ff. as numbered, each folio with 22ll. of cursory black naskh script, with numerous diagrams in red, catchwords, old repairs, in restored brown morocco binding with flap; and a treatise on astronomy including tables, signed Mahmud bin Mirza Muhammad and dated AH 1254, 143ff. as numbered, each folio with 23ll. of black naskh script, words picked out in red, illustrated with some diagrams in red, in brown morocco binding with flap
Folio 10 x 6¾in. (25.4 x 17.1cm.) largest manuscript (3)

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