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Another copy of this work is in the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh (No 14396/111800).
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QAJAR IRAN, DATED 22 JUMADA II AH 1284/21 OCTOBER 1867 AD
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HUSAYN BIN TASADDUQ HUSAYN BIN 'UBAYDULLAH AL-'AZIM ABADI AL-NAJARANHISAWI (D. 1867 AD): SULM AL-AFLAK
QAJAR IRAN, DATED 22 JUMADA II AH 1284/21 OCTOBER 1867 AD
Dated to the year of the author's death, on Astronomy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 25ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 22ll. of neat black naskh script, titles and occasional words in larger red thuluth script, with numerous diagrams in gold, text within black-ruled gold frame, colophon indicating that this manuscript was copied in six days, marginal repairs, in tooled brown morocco binding
Text panel 8 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (22.4 x 12.1cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 6 3/8in. (28.8 x 16cm.)
QAJAR IRAN, DATED 22 JUMADA II AH 1284/21 OCTOBER 1867 AD
Dated to the year of the author's death, on Astronomy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 25ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 22ll. of neat black naskh script, titles and occasional words in larger red thuluth script, with numerous diagrams in gold, text within black-ruled gold frame, colophon indicating that this manuscript was copied in six days, marginal repairs, in tooled brown morocco binding
Text panel 8 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (22.4 x 12.1cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 6 3/8in. (28.8 x 16cm.)
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