MAKE A MEME View Large Image Iraq - The Book of Fixed Stars - Google Art Project.jpg A 12th-century Iraqi illustrated manuscript of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars The left hand page describes Corona Borealis The Northern Crown while the right hand page ...
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Keywords: Unknown, Iraq - The Book of Fixed Stars - Google Art Project.jpg A 12th-century Iraqi illustrated manuscript of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars The left hand page describes Corona Borealis The Northern Crown while the right hand page tabulates the stars in the preceding constellation Boötes The Herdsman http //www staff science uu nl/~gent0113/alsufi/alsufi htmI Al-Ṣūfī s Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars and its Influence on Islamic and Western Celestial Cartography - includes a detailed bibliography and a list of all known manuscripts of al-Ṣūfī s Book of the Fixed Stars See also an associated http //www atlascoelestis com/al 20sufi 20van 20gent pdf PowerPoint Presentation David Anthony King Barbara Brend Robert Hillenbrand A Previously Unrecorded Illustrated Manuscript of the Kitāb Suwar al-Kawākib of al-Sūfī Copied and Illustrated in Baghdād in A D 1125 Sotheby s Catalogue Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures London Wednesday 29 April 1998 pp 32-48 lot 34 http //mia org qa/en/collections Museum of Islamic Art Doha Iraq 1100-1125 1919514 Unknown Iraq /collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/artwork/the-book-of-fixed-stars-unknown-iraq-1100-1125/1911593/ Unknown Iraq 1100-1125 /collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/ The Museum of Islamic Art Qatar 681934 http //www mia org qa/ 2/22/2012 5 00 20 PM /collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/artwork/the-book-of-fixed-stars-unknown-iraq-1100-1125/1911593/ 1100 True 50 1911593 True 1125 /collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/level/floor-2-2/887775/ Floor 2 / الطابق 2 3/24/2012 10 58 36 AM MS 2 1998 http //www mia org qa/en Manuscript 1100 1130 w185 x h50 cm 1100 - 1125 False 1 80918727915194 Object /collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/level/floor-2-2/887775/gallery-9/898298/ Gallery 9 the-book-of-fixed-stars-unknown-iraq-1100-1125 The Book of Fixed Stars b 185 24 cm special url_id 9QHCQq0iMa3Smw PD-old-100 Google Art Project works by unknown artist Iraq Doha Museum of Islamic Art 12th-century illuminated manuscripts
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