Masa'il Ilm al-Astrab (a Treatise on Workings of the Astrolabe), in Arabic and Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [Timurid Persia, c. 1490 AD] 53 leaves, apparently only lacking the first leaf of text, single column, 18 lines black rounded naskh, diagrams and illustrations relating to the astrolabe and its construction in red, many contemporary marginal illustrations, some wormholes and small nicks and tears, a few repaired over small sections of text, some margins repaired, lightly soiled and stained in places, 210 by 160 mm.; eighteenth-century boards, recased and repaired, modern gilt coloured decorations to covers There is a contemporary ink inscription below the colophon of this manuscript, in the same hand as the marginal annotations throughout, dating the manuscript 1103 AH (1492 AD) and firmly placing its copying in the fifteenth century.
Masa'il Ilm al-Astrab (a Treatise on Workings of the Astrolabe), in Arabic and Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [Timurid Persia, c. 1490 AD] 53 leaves, apparently only lacking the first leaf of text, single column, 18 lines black rounded naskh, diagrams and illustrations relating to the astrolabe and its construction in red, many contemporary marginal illustrations, some wormholes and small nicks and tears, a few repaired over small sections of text, some margins repaired, lightly soiled and stained in places, 210 by 160 mm.; eighteenth-century boards, recased and repaired, modern gilt coloured decorations to covers There is a contemporary ink inscription below the colophon of this manuscript, in the same hand as the marginal annotations throughout, dating the manuscript 1103 AH (1492 AD) and firmly placing its copying in the fifteenth century.
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