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Firdevsi-i Tavil: Da'vet-name (Calling of the Soul) (1487) Turkey

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Taken from: Firdevsī-i Ṭavīl and his Daʻvet-nāme: inceleme, metin, dizin, tıpkıbasım ve mikrofiş By Fatma Büyükkarcı

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This book deals with subjects like: The properties and duties of angels and souls; the creation of faults and signs; how the souls will be called and how they will be protected from possible dangers and harms when doing so.

 

Folio 56b line 12

In Zanzibar the masters are kindly transported by 36 airy beings.

 

Folio 75b

The deputies of the angels are in the formation of giraffes like this

 

Note: this giraffe is identical to the much older Turkish giraffe of: see Nasir al-Rammal al-Haykali: (on Astrology) (1050-1075) Turc