A collection of different treaties bound in one volume dealing with astronomy, keeping time and mathematics, North Africa and Near East, 15th to 18th century, the first treaty connected with astronomy, the movements of planets and calculating the...

A collection of different treaties bound in one volume dealing with astronomy, keeping time and mathematics, North Africa and Near East, 15th to 18th century, the first treaty connected with astronomy, the movements of planets and calculating the times of praying according to location, North Africa, Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 22ll. per page written in black Maghribi script, important words and titles of the section written in red, tables at the end of the manuscript; the second treaty: Nour al-Din ‘Ali bin Abd al-Qadir al-Fardi al-Hasani (d.870 AH/1465-66 AD), Kitab al-fawayid al-jaliat fi hali majhulat al-wasila, Near East, Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 19ll. per page written in black naskh with important words in red; the third text with two sections (fasl, 4 and fasl 5) from a treaty on the power of the human brain and how to exercise it, Near East; Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper, 19 lines to the page written in black naskh with important words in red; all bound in a brown leather binding with central oval medallion with stamped frame, restored, folio 20.2 x 14.3cm. Provenance: Private Collection Oliver Hoare (1945-2018) Note: A copy of Kitab al-fawayid al-jaliat fi hali majhulat al-wasila is now in the Al-Azhar Library, Cairo, inv.no.4374.
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