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OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED THURSDAY 22 RAMADAN AH 1096/22 AUGUST 1685 AD
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TWO SHORT TREATISES ON ASTROLOGY
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED THURSDAY 22 RAMADAN AH 1096/22 AUGUST 1685 AD
Turkish manuscript on paper, 19ff. plus 2 modern fly-leaves, the first treatise Sharh da'irat al-ghayb by Ahmad bin 'Ali bin Yusuf al-Bunni (d. 1225 AD), each folio with diagrams and tables or 25ll. of elegant black naskh script, some words picked out in red and green, catchwords, the second by the chief astrologer Aydin al-'Adali (?) munajjim basha, with tables and diagrams in red and black ink, with two diagrams of the Ka'ba, in modern binding
Folio 9 x 5¼in. (23 x 13.2cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED THURSDAY 22 RAMADAN AH 1096/22 AUGUST 1685 AD
Turkish manuscript on paper, 19ff. plus 2 modern fly-leaves, the first treatise Sharh da'irat al-ghayb by Ahmad bin 'Ali bin Yusuf al-Bunni (d. 1225 AD), each folio with diagrams and tables or 25ll. of elegant black naskh script, some words picked out in red and green, catchwords, the second by the chief astrologer Aydin al-'Adali (?) munajjim basha, with tables and diagrams in red and black ink, with two diagrams of the Ka'ba, in modern binding
Folio 9 x 5¼in. (23 x 13.2cm.)