Book of Wonders
Late 14th-century Arabic illustrated manuscript
Book of Wonders
The Kitāb al-Bulhān (Arabic: كتاب البلهان), commonly translated as the Book of Wonders and also rendered by the art historian Stefano Carboni as the Book of Surprises, is an illustrated Arabic manuscript and compilation of works on astrology, astronomy, divination, geomancy, magic, and demonology. The principal part of the surviving manuscript was produced in the late Jalayirid period, probably in Baghdad, and is dated to around 1399–1400. It is associated with ʿAbd al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Iṣfahānī, whose family name indicates origins in Isfahan. David Pingree identifies al-Iṣfahānī as the author of the Kitāb al-Bulhān and states that he composed it around 1400 for Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Irbilī. The manuscript is now preserved in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford as MS. Bodl. Or. 133. The surviving codex is a composite manuscript: portions of its original contents were lost and the remaining sections were subsequently rebound in an order that...
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