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Thread: Visual supplement to @aaolomi thread on the lunar mansions. Beautiful illustrations of the celestial lords (arbāb) of each mansion from Flavius Mithridates’s bilingual translation (15th c) of Ibn al-Ḥātim’s treatise on the magic of the lunar mansions. (Vat. Lat. 1384). 
Mansion 1: al-naṭḥ (al-sharṭayn), spirit: Ḥāris حارس
Mansion 2: al-buṭayn, spirit: Anākhīl اناخيل
Mansion 3: al-thurayyā, spirit: Abūlasīt ابولسيت
Mansion 4: al-duburān, spirit: Iswāwis, اسواوس
Mansion 5: al-haqʿa, spirit: Iqbāl, اقبال
Mansion 6: al-hanʿa, spirit: Anār, انار
Mansion 7: al-dhirāʿ, spirit: Shāʾalak, شاءلك
Mansion 8: al-nathra, spirit: Aqārīs اقاريس
Mansion 9: al-ṭarf, spirit: Rāwdāl راودال
Mansion 10: al-jabha, spirit: Arāḍīn, اراضين
Mansion 11: al-zubra/al-karātān, spirit: Aqlal liqābil, لقابل اقلل
Mansion 12: al-ṣarfa, spirit: Adhbīsha, اذبيشه
Mansion 13: al-ʿawāʾ, spirit: Asārub, اسارب
Mansion 14: al-simmāk, spirit: Anāḥ, اناح
Mansion 15: al-ghafr, spirit: Aqālīd, اقاليد
Mansion 16: al-zubānā, spirit: Asāriṭ, اسارط
Mansion 17: al-iklīl, spirits: Aryāth and Adhniyāb, اذنياب ارياث
Mansion 18: al-qalb, spirits: Aḥbiyāl and Aghyāl, اغيال احبيال
Mansion 19: al-shawla, spirits: Adhniyāl and Abarbiyāl, اذنيال ابربيال
Mansion 20: al-Naʿāʾim, name unclear
al-Balda, missing!
Mansion 22: saʿd dhābiḥ, spirit: Ooft arānt, اوفت ارانت
Mansion 23: saʿd balaʿ, spirit: Sanīsanaḥin, سنى سنح
Mansion 24: saʿd al-suʿūd, spirit: Afradīm Abriyās, افرديم ابرياس
