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ALMANACH PREPARED FOR THE OTTOMAN SULTAN ‘ABD AL-MAJID I (R. 1836-61), [Ottoman Turkey, mid-19th century].
Each folio with 23 lines of tight black naskh, folios with text arranged in one or two columns or within tables, titles and important phrases and words picked out in gold, red, blue, green and orange, headings in larger gold or polychrome thuluth, text in thick gold frame, the margins with gold floral scrolls, including a full page depiction of the Zodiac and various smaller cartouches decorated with personifications of the constellations, with added pencil date of AH 1258/1842-43 AD. In Turkish, 25 + i leaves, folio (270 x 190mm). 18th-century stamped brown morocco with marbled paper doublures.
Each folio with 23 lines of tight black naskh, folios with text arranged in one or two columns or within tables, titles and important phrases and words picked out in gold, red, blue, green and orange, headings in larger gold or polychrome thuluth, text in thick gold frame, the margins with gold floral scrolls, including a full page depiction of the Zodiac and various smaller cartouches decorated with personifications of the constellations, with added pencil date of AH 1258/1842-43 AD. In Turkish, 25 + i leaves, folio (270 x 190mm). 18th-century stamped brown morocco with marbled paper doublures.
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