| 词条 | Book of Wonders | ||||||
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The Kitab al-Bulhan كتاب البلهان, or Book of Wonders, or Book of Surprises,{{sfn|Carboni|loc=La Trobe Journal|p=22}} is a mainly 14th century Arabic manuscript compiled, and possibly illustrated,{{sfn|Carboni|loc=La Trobe Journal|p=34}} by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani. The codex was probably bound during the reign of Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad (1382-1410) at Baghdad, and includes texts on astronomy, astrology, geomancy and a section of full-page illustrated plates dedicated to each discourse topic, e.g. a folktale, a sign of the zodiac, a prophet, etc.{{sfn|Carboni|2007|p=295}}{{sfn|Isfahani (al-), Kitab al-Bulhan|1390}} History of ManuscriptThe calligrapher, copiest and compiler, ʿAbd al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Hasan al-Isfahani, whose family came from Isfahan in Iran was a native of Baghdad where he studied the Aristotelic ‘demonstrative’ (burhan) sciences.{{sfn|Carboni|loc=La Trobe Journal|p=24}} It seems the Kitab al-Bulhan was commissioned by, or the idea of, Shaykh al-Diya Husayn al-Irbili’{{mdash}}originally of Irbil near Mosul in northern Iraq {{mdash}} who sold it to Haydar ibn al-Hajji ʿAbd al-Karim ibn Muhammad in Dec 1409 - Jan 1410. The original codex comprised a series of treatises, which came apart and when sections were reassembled and some lost, it became jumbled and incoherent. The work includes extracts copied from the Kitab al-mawalid or ‘Book of Nativities’ of the astronomer and neo-Platonist Abu Maʿshar al-Balkhi (787-886 CE) of Balkh (modern-day Mazar-i Sharif) in northern Afghanistan.{{sfn|Carboni|loc=La Trobe Journal|p=24}} Manuscript CopiesIn the late C. 16th two Turkish copies were made from the original for the two daughters of the Ottoman sultan Murad III (r. 1574–95.), one for Aysha Sultan, (c. 1582), the other for Fatma Sultan. These manuscripts are complete and establish the original order of the treatises of the Kitab al-Bulhan. The codices are now held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City and the Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris.{{sfn|Carboni|loc=La Trobe Journal|p=25}} GallerySee also
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