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[ASTROLABE].

Mu'arifat Fuwa'id Astrolabe,

Mu'arifat Fuwa'id Astrolabe,

treatise on the knowledge and uses of the astrolabe,

Stock Code 114852

Safavid Persia or possibly India, dated 1118 AH (1739 AD)

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Working manual for the astrolabe. An interesting treatise dedicated entirely to the uses and functions of the astrolabe, divided into 20 chapters.

As well as providing information on the instrument, this treatise also works as a manual for it's use and includes a calendar to guide the user of the asrolabe. The manuscript is in a small paper format and includes many contemporary marginal annotations written in an informal hand, which strongly indicate that the manuscript was used by either a scholar or student working with an astrolabe and using this volume as a guide but also working manual on it's uses in the year 1739 AD.

Single volume, decorated manuscript on polished paper, in Farsi, 95 leaves plus a final free endpaper, 190 x 120mm; single column, 21 lines black naskh, important words, headings and overlining in red, diagrams and charts throughout, a few contemporary annotations to margins, catch-words, seal impressions to first and final leaves, 20th century ownership stamp from the private library of Jafar Ashraqi to first and final leaves (dated 1355 AH (1936 AD), some light finger-soiling, later limp leather, rebacked, a little soiled and rubbed. 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾ inches).

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