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Anonymous artist, for a temporary (small calendar) called a calendar with solar and lunar years
(فنان مجهول، لمؤقتة تقويم صغير تسمى روزنامة بالسنين الشمسية والقمرية)

Title	Anonymous artist, for a temporary (small calendar) called a calendar with solar and lunar years
Title Original	فنان مجهول، لمؤقتة تقويم صغير تسمى روزنامة بالسنين الشمسية والقمرية
Publication Date:	Probably 16-17 centuries
Publication Place	Maybe Syria - Austrian National Library (ANL)
Subject	Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	251×145 مم (190×80 مم) 8 صفحات
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	N.F. 401
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus24;17;ar
Library Location	Austrian National Library (ANL)
Date	Probably 16-17 centuries
Notes	The anonymous Arabic treatise called the Solar and Lunar Calendar (Small Calendar of Solar and Lunar Years) was drawn up for the years 905 AH/1499 AD to 1000 AH/1592 AD. It was probably written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Ottoman Syria. The phrase in Latin (Deo Trino et Uno honor Lausq infinita) on page 8a was probably written by a later Christian owner of the letter, while the seal of your hopes on page 8b belongs to Joseph von Hammer-Burgstahl, from whom the manuscript was purchased by the Austrian National Library in 1842. The European semi-leather binding probably corresponds to a 19th-century Viennese production. The calendar itself is composed in a format similar to the rolls of the Ottoman prayer calendar and its tabular arrangement. But particularly remarkable is the fact that small drawings are pasted into the margins of the manuscript, which is unusual for this form of manuscript. These drawings include images of the zodiac signs and also monthly symbols. The miniatures of the zodiac are related in terms of the Timurid Shiraz style at the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the rulers had a great interest in astronomy and the natural sciences. It can be assumed that these drawings were cut from an older calendar or astronomical treatise and reused in a new context. It is visually integrated into the page layout as borders are drawn around the images. Monthly codes to the contrary are pasted above these limits and should therefore be added later. It presents themes from a Christian context with Islamic artistic traditions and the scenes are reminiscent of Islamic metalwork. It is therefore possible that the calendar was later owned by a Christian who pasted this second set of drawings onto the pages.
Sample Text	Theresa Zischkin “Anonymous artist, temporary (small calendar) called calendar with solar and lunar years” in Explore Islamic Art collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;17;ar
Cilt	The European half-leather binding has the following written in gold print on the spine: ‘Almanac from 905-1000’. It was likely made in 19th century Vienna.
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN
Seçili bibliyografya	Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften II/2. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 5/2, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008: 66-70.

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Anonymous artist, for a temporary (small calendar) called a calendar with solar and lunar years

(فنان مجهول، لمؤقتة تقويم صغير تسمى روزنامة بالسنين الشمسية والقمرية)

Publication Date Probably 16-17 centuries

Publication Place Maybe Syria - Austrian National Library (ANL)

Subject Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 251×145 مم (190×80 مم) 8 صفحات

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID N.F. 401

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus24;17;ar

Library Location Austrian National Library (ANL)

Date Probably 16-17 centuries

Notes The anonymous Arabic treatise called the Solar and Lunar Calendar (Small Calendar of Solar and Lunar Years) was drawn up for the years 905 AH/1499 AD to 1000 AH/1592 AD. It was probably written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Ottoman Syria. The phrase in Latin (Deo Trino et Uno honor Lausq infinita) on page 8a was probably written by a later Christian owner of the letter, while the seal of your hopes on page 8b belongs to Joseph von Hammer-Burgstahl, from whom the manuscript was purchased by the Austrian National Library in 1842. The European semi-leather binding probably corresponds to a 19th-century Viennese production. The calendar itself is composed in a format similar to the rolls of the Ottoman prayer calendar and its tabular arrangement. But particularly remarkable is the fact that small drawings are pasted into the margins of the manuscript, which is unusual for this form of manuscript. These drawings include images of the zodiac signs and also monthly symbols. The miniatures of the zodiac are related in terms of the Timurid Shiraz style at the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the rulers had a great interest in astronomy and the natural sciences. It can be assumed that these drawings were cut from an older calendar or astronomical treatise and reused in a new context. It is visually integrated into the page layout as borders are drawn around the images. Monthly codes to the contrary are pasted above these limits and should therefore be added later. It presents themes from a Christian context with Islamic artistic traditions and the scenes are reminiscent of Islamic metalwork. It is therefore possible that the calendar was later owned by a Christian who pasted this second set of drawings onto the pages.

Sample Text Theresa Zischkin “Anonymous artist, temporary (small calendar) called calendar with solar and lunar years” in Explore Islamic Art collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;17;ar

Cilt The European half-leather binding has the following written in gold print on the spine: ‘Almanac from 905-1000’. It was likely made in 19th century Vienna.

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN

Seçili bibliyografya Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften II/2. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 5/2, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008: 66-70.