Irbilī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, early 15th cent.
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Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Miṣrī 14th cent.
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Irbilī, Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, early 15th cent.
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Haydar ibn al-Haji Adb al Karim ibn al-Jawad al-Mawsili
Description
Composite manuscript in Arabic of divinatory works, dating
principally from the late 14th century A.D., containing
astrological, astronomical and geomantic texts compiled by Abd
al-Ḥasan Al-Iṣfāhānī, with illustrations. Fol. 81a is in
Turkish.
Extent: 176 leaves (ff. 80 + 13 + 36 + 33 + 7 + 4 + 3). 245 x 160
mm.
Layout: Various page formats.
Hand: Naskh, with title in Eastern qufic, fol. 1b.
Decoration: 83 illustrations, including miniatures.
Binding: European calf, 17th century, double blind fillets toward
board edges, blind garland rolls on fore-edges of boards, red
speckled edges of textblock, numbered on fore-edge in pen, spine
title stamped in gilt: Astrolog. Shelfmark on spine stamped in
gilt: Bodl. 133. Paper label on spine: Arch. O c.2.
Provenance: Patron of Kitāb al-Bulhān, 1399, Husayn al-Irbili
(inscription ff. 163a and 169a); Bought 1409 by Haydar b. Abd
al-Karim, Aleppo (inscription f. 131a); Owned, c. 1608-1610, Yahya
b. Muhammad, Edirne (inscription f. i a); Bodleian Library,
Nathaniel Palmer bequest, 1717.
