Kitabu’l-Favai’d Compilation of Useful Information

by Ottoman Turkish Manuscript

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

13 leaves, written in divani and tavki script. Incomplete at the beginning and end. With four later miniatures. 1 vols. 4to 11.5 x 8 inches . Later cloth-covered board binding over an earlier binding. Rubbed and worn but sound, text leaves edgeworn, some loosened. AS IS. Item #371989 This is a fascinating 17th-century Ottoman manuscript compilation mecmua of various recipes, historical notes, numerology, brief histories of prophets mentioned

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