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Illustration from

'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita)
by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī,
Suleymanie Library, Istanbul, Manuscript Ayasofya 2595, 1249-50AD.


Heracles A



CREATED: Persia
DATE: 1250AD
LOCATION: Istanbul, Hagia Sophia 2595, fol. 19r
Source: The Warburg Institute Iconocraphic Database



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