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A vellum scroll containing an Ottoman illuminated calligraphic almanac. Manuscripts on vellum from Turkey are relatively rare. The almanac contains a Ġurrẹnāmẹ, indicating the first day of each lunar month, and tables indicating the times of the five daily prayers as calculated for the Istanbul ...
Author: Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 VIAF ID: 173585994 Subject: Shafiites--Early works to 1800; Islamic law--Early works to 1800
Şerh-i kaside-i muallaka-i İmruülkays - شرح قصيدهٔ معلقهٔ امرؤ القيس
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This volume contains a commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the kaside of the pre-Islamic Arab poet Imruʾl-Qays, who passed away around 550 CE. It forms part of the Mu‘allaqāt, a collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems authored by the most renowned poets of the sixth century CE. In his preface...
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
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Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...