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AN OTTOMAN ASTRONOMICAL TABLE
TURKEY OR OTTOMAN PROVINCES, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 12ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with a black-outlined gold table, filled in with orange, blue, red and black thuluth and naskh script, giving the positions of the sun, moon and stars, first folio possibly with date of AH 1192, in modern stamped red morocco binding
Text panel 6¾ x 4 5/8in. (17.3 x 11.8cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 6 5/8in. (24.5 x 16.8cm.)

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