Book of Wonders
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Cancer or al-Saratan, one of the signs of the Zodiac depicted in the book
The Kitab al-Bulhan كتاب البلهان, or Book of Wonders, is a 14th and 15th century Arabic manuscript compiled by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani probably bound during the reign of Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad (1382-1410) at Baghdad. The texts are on astronomy, astrology and geomancy, including a section of full-page illustrations, with plates dedicated to the discourse topic, e.g. a folktale, a sign of the zodiac, a prophet, etc.[1][2]
Gallery
A man, mounted on a camel, killing a dragon with a lance.
The baths of Tiberius. Men bathing while demons tend the furnace.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Great Wall of Gog and Magog
Capricorn or al-Gadī, one of the signs of the Zodiac depicted in the book
Kitab al-Bulhan
See also
- The Book of Felicity
References
Citations
- ↑ Carboni 2007, p. 295.
- ↑ Isfahani (al-), Kitab al-Bulhan 1390.
Sources
- Carboni, Stefano (2007), Venice and the Islamic world, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300124309, https://books.google.com/books?id=10Rrl29pBMYC
- Isfahani (al-), Abd al-Hasan (1390) (in Arabic), Kitab Al-Bulhan (MS), Baghdad: Archive.org—International Exhibition of Persian Art London 1931, pp. 367, https://archive.org/details/KitabAlBulhan
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