HOROSCOPE (AHKAM-I KULLIYE) PREPARED FOR THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MAHMUD II

Lot 110
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Lot 110 | HOROSCOPE (AHKAM-I KULLIYE) PREPARED FOR THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MAHMUD II
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HOROSCOPE (AHKAM-I KULLIYE) PREPARED FOR THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MAHMUD II

OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 3 JUMADA AH 1232⁄21 March 1817 AD

Ottoman manuscript on highly burnished thick light cream paper, 13ff., each folio with 23ll. of tight black naskh, text arranged in one or two columns or within tables, titles and important phrases and words picked out in gold, red, blue, green and orange, headings in larger gold or polychrome thuluth, text in thick gold frame, in brown binding

Text panel 8 1⁄2 x 5 3⁄4in. (21.6 x 14.5cm.); folio 12 1⁄2 x 8 5⁄8in. (31.6 x 21.8cm.)







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