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Lot 33

A large talismanic folio
Ottoman Empire, 19th Century

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large talismanic folio
Ottoman Empire, 19th Century

Arabic manuscript on cloth, text written in ghubari script
565 x 355 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.

For a discussion of such talismanic charts in the Khalili Collection, including an Ottoman 18th Century example, see F. Maddison, E. Savage-Smith, Science, Tools and Magic: Part One, London 1997, pp. 106-116.

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