IO Islamic 4420 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miftah al-nujum
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1 copy of Miftāḥ al-nujūm
Anonymously written commentary on Nasir al-Din Tusi's Arabic astological and astronomical treatise, Mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqvīm. As it comprised of 30 chapters or essays, it is also known in Persian as the Sī faṣl
The work is dedicated to Sultan Bayazid Muhammad ibn Murid Khan al-Ghazi (r. 795-805/1390-1402-3)
The present volume contains an entry dated as late as 1466 (year 1790 of the Alexandrine era)
Numerous diagrams
Defective at end
Not dated
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