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POSSIBLY MEDINA, OTTOMAN HIJAZ, BEFORE AH 1158/1745-6 AD
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ABU MA'SAR JA'FAR BIN MUHAMMAD AL-BALKHI (ALBUMASAR) (D. 886 AD): KITAB QIRANAT AL-KAWAKIB FI AL-BURUJ AL-ITHNA 'ASHARIYA
POSSIBLY MEDINA, OTTOMAN HIJAZ, BEFORE AH 1158/1745-6 AD
The Book of Conjunctions of the Planets in the Twelve Signs, Arabic manuscript on paper, 127ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of cursory naskh script, important words and phrases picked out in red, with a number of small tables, catchwords, colophon probably tampered with and giving the name of the scribe as 'Abdullah bin 'Abd al-Samad al-Ansari, the date of end of Rajab AH 1132 and stating that this was copied in the madrasa al-Muradiya in Medina, fly-leaf with later owners' notes giving the name of Medina and the date of AH 1158, in stamped brown morocco binding with flap
Folio 8 1/8 x 5¾in. (20.7 x 14.8cm.)
POSSIBLY MEDINA, OTTOMAN HIJAZ, BEFORE AH 1158/1745-6 AD
The Book of Conjunctions of the Planets in the Twelve Signs, Arabic manuscript on paper, 127ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of cursory naskh script, important words and phrases picked out in red, with a number of small tables, catchwords, colophon probably tampered with and giving the name of the scribe as 'Abdullah bin 'Abd al-Samad al-Ansari, the date of end of Rajab AH 1132 and stating that this was copied in the madrasa al-Muradiya in Medina, fly-leaf with later owners' notes giving the name of Medina and the date of AH 1158, in stamped brown morocco binding with flap
Folio 8 1/8 x 5¾in. (20.7 x 14.8cm.)