Illustration from

'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)

Perseus

Fig 14B in Painting The Stars In A Century Of Change, by Moya Catherine Carey, 2001

Referenced on p33, MAA 171 - Saladin and the Saracens by David Nicolle:
"Copy of al Sufi's Book of Stars made in Iraq or Egypt, AD 1131. The costume and equipment are in the pre-Saljuq tradition."

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