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  • Note 170: Curious note: a volume in the Urbino library (I.V. #285), containing Euclid's Optics, Ptolemy's De iis qui in coelo aspiciuntor, and Mahomet's De algebra et almuchabala, was copied by Michele Foresio for a certain Francesco da Borgo Sansepolcro, on 24 October 1458.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Others go as far as Mecca to Mahomet's tomb, which journey is both miraculous and meritorious.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Acmor, and Ozimen, those four doctors, Mahomet's successors, and are subdivided into seventy-two inferior sects, as [6357] Leo Afer reports.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The ceremonies of flinging stones to stone the devil, of eating a camel at Cairo by the way; their fastings, their running till they sweat, their long prayers, Mahomet's temple, tomb, and building of it, would ask a whole volume to dilate: and for their pains taken in this holy pilgrimage, all their sins are forgiven, and they reputed for so many saints.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In Byron's passage, believers and sceptics are historically specific and temperamentally passionate: "'Twas Jove's'tis Mahomet's";

    'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001

  • There must be a way of getting to safety, before they were poisoned by CO2, or the pressure dropped so low that the chamber became, in literal truth, a tomb like Mahomet's - suspended between Heaven and Earth.

    The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

  • This was Mahomet's devise, for the purpose of establishing his Alcoran free from all liability of its becoming an object of dispute.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

  • 'You might as well try to purchase one of Mahomet's old slippers.'

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • Stockton, and an angelic host with well-rounded calves in pink tights, radiant in the red light that, from some hidden regions, illuminates the aforesaid scantily clad angels, as they hang, like Mahomet's coffin,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

  • Backwards and forwards along this beautiful _paseo_ we went, the moon lending her enchantment, and the different bands filling the air with ravishing strains, odorous plants of the tropics lading it with perfumes, and the dark-eyed Señoras reclining in their luxurious calesas, gave as good an idea of a paradise of Mahomet's order as one could wish.

    Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

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