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Kitāb-i ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt
كتاب عجايب مخلوقات
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ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt
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Manuscripts, Persian--Iran--Iṣfahān--20th century
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Constellations--Pictorial works--Specimens
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Monsters--Pictorial works--Specimens
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Manuscripts, Persian--New Jersey--Princeton
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Zodiac--Pictorial works--Specimens
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Archangels--Pictorial works--Specimens
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1921
20. century
1921
1921
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Extent: 147 leaves : paper, ill. ; 218 x 175 (140 x 110) mm. bound to 225 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex.
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Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).
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Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.
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56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.
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Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. [Sept.-Oct. 1906] by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. [1911 to 1921].
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11 November 2024
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11 November 2024
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