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Qazwini, ‘Ajaib al-makhluqat, MS probably from Mosul, ca.1305. British Library, MS Or.14140
15th-century Persian miniature showing students studying astronomy with their teacher, reading measurements from an astrolabe. MS 1418, Istanbul University Library.
Depiction of an Arabic manuscript library. Maqamat of al-Hariri Illustration by Yahyá al-Wasiti, Baghdad 1237, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Arabe 5847.
Arabic block-print from Egypt, probably Mamluk period. Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo
Arabic block-print from Egypt, probably Fatimid period. Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo.
Italian paper-mill, probably from the 16th century
[Ibn Sina, Qanun], Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Venice: Antonius Junta, 1527
Ibn Sina, Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb, Rome: Medici Press, 1593
[Anonymus], Persa De siglis Arabum & Persarum astronomicis. Ed. John Greaves. London: M.Flesher, 1648
The Mongol siege of Mosul from a manuscript of Rashid al-Din’s Jami‘ al-Tawarikh, 14th century
John Bainbridge & John Greaves, Canicularia. Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1648, based on the astronomical tables of Ulugh Beg
Kâtib Çelebi, Kitâb-i Cihânnümâ, Istanbul: Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732.
[Perron, Nicolas.] Al-Azhar al-badi’a fi ‘ilm al-tabi’a. Translated by Yuhanna ‘Anturi. Bulaq, 1254 [1838].
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