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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 B
CREATED: Persia
DATE: 1250AD
LOCATION: Istanbul, Hagia Sophia 2595, fol. 19v
Source: The Warburg Institute Iconocraphic Database
Referenced as Fig 46 in An Early al-Sufi Manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A Study in Islamic Constellation Images, by Emmy Wellesz, in Ars Orientalis 3 (1959), pp. 1-26
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