Book of Felicity

كتاب السعادة

An illuminated Ottoman manuscript made in 1582 for Murad III; cosmological and wondrous images of Ottoman divination.

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An illustrated Ottoman manuscript prepared in 1582 for Murad III; pictures of the sky, the zodiac and the miracles in the Ottoman division of the stars. 1

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