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Daqa’iq al-haqa’iq (Degrees of Truths) by al-Nasiri (Nasir al-Din Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. 'Abd Allah al-Rammal al-Mu'azzim al Sa'ati al-Haykali)
Not on view
This manuscript was presented to Kay Khusraw III, one of the last Rum Seljuq rulers, when he was a child. Its five treatises, written in Persian, deal with astrology, angelology (study of angels), talismans, and magic, and emphasize prognostication. In the section on the conjunction of the moon and planets, Mercury, protector of the applied arts, appears dressed in a scribe’s robe, holding in his multiple hands, possibly following an Indian model, a pot of fire, a handful of snow, a book, and a pen.
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