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Turkish version of the Wonders of creation, A duck, Walters Manuscript W.659, fol. 116a detail
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Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
This is an Ottoman illuminated and illustrated Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation) by Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī (d. 692 AH / 1293 CE), made at the request of the Vizier Murtaza Paşa (Murtaḍá Pāshā) (fl. eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE). The codex was completed in 1121 AH / 1717 CE by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Shākir Rūzmah-ʾi Nāthānī. There are 444 paintings illustrating the text. The binding is not original to the manuscript.

Illuminated Manuscript, Compendium of computistical texts, Diagram of the Zodiac, Walters Art Museum Ms W.73, fol. 1r
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Image by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
Created in England in the late twelfth century, this manuscript was intended to be a scientific textbook for monks. The manuscript is brief at nine folios, and was designed as a compendium of cosmographical knowledge drawn from early Christian writers such as Bede and Isidore, as well as the later Abbo of Fleury. Those writers, in turn, drew on classical sources like Pliny the Elder for their knowledge, but adapted it to be understood through the filter of Christianity. The twenty complex diagrams that accompany the texts in this pamphlet help illustrate them, and include visualizations of the heavens and earth, seasons, winds, tides, and the zodiac, as well as demonstrations of how these things relate to man. Although the exact grouping of texts and diagrams here is unique, the manuscript is related to other scientific compilations from this era, such as British Library, Royal Ms. 13 A.XI, Cotton Ms. Tiberius E.IV, and Oxford, St. John’s College, Ms. 17.

Hos Spaa Konen
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Image by National Library of Norway
Beskrivelse / Description: Postkort / postcard.
Hos spåkonen / At the fortune teller.
Dato / Date: ukjent / unknown
Fotograf / Photographer: ukjent / unknown
Utgiver / Publisher: N. K.
Digital kopi av original / Digital copy of original: postkort, lystrykk, s/h
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: blds_06191