Image: “Sign of Sagittarius” by al-Sufi in his book Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita, calligrapher Wathiq b. ʿAli b. ʿUmar b. al-Husayn al-maʿrūf bi-Shawqi, Artuqid Mardin, 1131, TSMK, A. 3493, fol. 91b. (Topkapı Palace Museum Library)
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Description: “Sign of Sagittarius” by al-Sufi in his book Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita, calligrapher Wathiq b. ʿAli b. ʿUmar b. al-Husayn al-maʿrūf bi-Shawqi, Artuqid Mardin, 1131, TSMK, A. 3493, fol. 91b. (Topkapı Palace Museum Library)
Title: “Sign of Sagittarius” by al-Sufi in his book Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita, calligrapher Wathiq b. ʿAli b. ʿUmar b. al-Husayn al-maʿrūf bi-Shawqi, Artuqid Mardin, 1131, TSMK, A. 3493, fol. 91b. (Topkapı Palace Museum Library)
Credit: (1 August 2019) Artistic Aspects of Sultan Bayezid II’s Book Treasury Collection: Extant Volumes Preserved at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library (Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)), pp. 161–211 DOI: 10.1163/9789004402508_005.
Author: 12th century artist
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