Book of Wonders

Cancer or al-Saratan, one of the signs of the Zodiac depicted in the book

The Kitab al-Bulhan كتاب البلهان, or Book of Wonders, is a 14th and 15th century Arabic manuscript. There are sections on astronomy, astrology and divination.^[1]

Gallery

A man, mounted on a camel, killing a dragon with a lance.
The baths of Tiberius. Men bathing while demons tend the furnace.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Great Wall of Gog and Magog
Capricorn or al-Gadī, one of the signs of the Zodiac depicted in the book
Kitab al-Bulhan

References

Citations

↑ Carboni 2007, p. 295.

Sources

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Carboni, Stefano (2007), Venice and the Islamic world, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300124309

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