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MU'AYYAD AL-DIN IBN BARMAK AL-'URDI AL-DIMASHQI (FL. 13TH CENTURY) : KITAB AL-HAY'AT

PROBABLY IRAN, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY

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MU'AYYAD AL-DIN IBN BARMAK AL-'URDI AL-DIMASHQI (FL. 13TH CENTURY) : KITAB AL-HAY'AT
Probably Iran, circa 14th Century
Astronomy, Arabic manuscript on light buff paper, 121ff. with 22ll. of sepia naskh, several well-drawn small diagrams in red and black within the text and with two full-page diagrams, final folio replacement, opening flyleaf with title and library inscriptions, one in Hebrew, good condition, contemporary black morocco binding with geometric gold tooled decoration, repaired at spine
Folio 10½ x 6¾in. (26.5 x 17cm.)

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Lot Essay

This is an early copy of a rare work by a contemporary and colleague of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. He was born in Damascus, but worked in Maragha at Tusi's observatory. Two other works by him are recorded, but there appears to be only one other copy of the present work which is known to be preserved in Konya (Yusuf Agfa 140).
See Brockelmann, C.: GAL SB1, pp.869-70.
Hajji Khalifah, ed. Fluegel, Leipzig, 1835-8 Vol.III, 561-2, 567.

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