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Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian [‎13r] (2/3)

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Ref: Add MS 23570, ff 12v-13r

The record is made up of Ff. 12v-13r. It was created in c 1605. It was written in Arabic, Persian and Farsi. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Folio 12v contains six lines of unpointed Arabic text entitled ' On ascertaining the distance between countries (في معرفة قدر المسافة بين البلدين)', and a diagram showing the orbit of the moon around the earth.

Folio 13r contains a short and mostly unpointed Persian text attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274), and a diagram.

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Two short extracts on astronomy in Arabic and Persian
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