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THE ZIJ-I ULUGH BEG DEDICATED TO

SULTAN BAYEZID II (R.1481-1512)

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A COPY OF THE ZIJ-I ULUGH BEG DEDICATED TO SULTAN
BAYEZID II (R.1481-1512)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DEDICATED TO SULTAN BAYEZID, DATED
19THDHU'L-QA'DA AH 914/ 20TH MARCH 1509 AD
The astronomical tables of Ulugh Beg, Persian and Arabic manuscript on buff This Ottoman calendar appears is a copy of an official calendar drawn up for After the introduction which gives the date of the drawing up of the calendar The seal impressions on the manuscripts include ones with the legend
paper, 34ff., most with 20ll. of elegant black naskh, the first line of each folio in Sultan Bayezid II whose name is mentioned and on whom God’s blessings and calls for blessings on the Sultan, predictions for various people and tawakkuli ‘ala khaliqi (My trust is in my Creator) and the talismanic word
fine jali naskh, within red rules, important words and diagram text in red and are invoked in the text. Bayezid II was particularly interested in astronomy things are given such as religious figures, bureaucrats, the weather, prices, buduh in kufic. There is also a seal impression of a Hajj Mustafa Sidqi (el-
black ink, Sultan Bayezid II's title picked out in gold on folio 1b., text arranged in and astrology and his reign saw a great development in the activities of the the common people, crops, foodstuffs and metals. These are followed by Hacc Mustafa Sıdkı, dated AH 1[1]75 (1761-2 AD). Further seal impression
various layouts and tables, two polychrome diagrams of west and east, library court astronomers and astrologers. It was during his reign that the basis of a table for divining whether a friendship is true or not, as well as tables of with an Arabic legend in kufic ma sha’a allah la quwwa illa billah (Whatsoever
seal impressions on first flyleaf, in blind-tooled Ottoman binding with central the calendrical tables that were to become standard throughout Ottoman prognostications (ikhtiyarat). These are followed by calendrical tables for the God wills. There is no strength but through God).
medallion, plain leather doublures, some folios loose in binding
Text panel 9º x 6æin. (23.5 x 17cm.); folio 11q x 7win. (29.1 x 20cm.) history was drawn up. The name of the chief astrologer (müneccimbaşı) is not months of the Persian Jalali calendar (i.e Persian solar calendar) starting on
mentioned in this text, though a calendar with the same title as this one was the Persian New Year, Nawruz, which fell on 19 Dhu’l-Qa‘da AH 914 (March For a later copy of an Ottoman calendar made for Sultan Selim III see lot 128
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£20,000-30,000 US$23,000-34,000 drawn up for the year AH 916 by a certain Abdurrahman (see Salim Aydüz, 21 1509 AD). This is followed by information about lunar eclipses (khusuf) in this sale.
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€23,000-34,000
"Osmanlı Devleti’nde Müneccimbaşılık Müessesesi", Belleten, vol. 70, 2006, and their significance for various events, people and regions.
pp. 167-264).
PROVENANCE:
Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York

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