Image: Al-Sufi's Orion, 1125 Baghdad copy, Doha Museum of Islamic Art Ms 2. 1998. SO
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Description: The constellation Orion in a 12th century copy of Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita. The left leg is marked as the star Rigel, rijl al-jauza al-yusra (the left leg of Orion)
Title: Al-Sufi's Orion, 1125 Baghdad copy, Doha Museum of Islamic Art Ms 2. 1998. SO
Credit: https://www.thesaxlproject.com/assets/Uploads/00-Orion-Master-18-August-2019.pdf (page 85) Doha, Museum of Islamic Art Ms 2. 1998. SO (= Sotheby’s 1998, lot 34) Dated April 1125 CE; Baghdād Original work: 'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī.
Author: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
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