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Illustration from

'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita)
by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī,
Suleymanie Library, Istanbul, manuscript Fatih 3422, 1125AD.

Virgo A



CREATED: Persia
DATE: 1125AD
LOCATION: Istanbul, Fatih Library 3422, fol. 131r
Source: The Warburg Institute Iconocraphic Database



Referenced as Fig. 63 in An Early al-Sufi Manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A Study in Islamic Constellation Images, by Emmy Wellesz, in Ars Orientalis 3 (1959), pp. 1-26


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