'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī, dated 525/1130-31 (Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, manuscript Ahmet III 3493)

Orion

Fig 45 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

Previous: Cassiopea Next: Orion
Back to Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, al-Sufi Manuscript A3493
Back to Saljuq Clothing