Folio 2r, from Kitāb Na‛t al-Ḥayawān, British Library manuscript Or.2784

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Illustration from the
Kitāb Na‛t al-Ḥayawān
Folio 2v, 1st Frontispiece. A man holding a book.
British Library manuscript Or.2784, possibly painted in Baghdad, 13th century, c 1220, before 1258

Folio 2v from Na‛t al-ḥayawān

Referenced as Plate 110 on pp.239-240, Moya Catherine Carey, Painting the Stars in a Century of Change: A Thirteenth-Century Copy of Al-Ṣūfī’s Treatise on the Fixed Stars (British Library Or. 5323) (Thesis University of London, 2001).

The man's cloak, gathered around the upper arms and fastened below the neck, recalls the author portrait in the c.1220AD Naʿt, linked to painting styles produced at Christian monastic ateliers near Mosul [PLATE 110].²⁶⁸

²⁶⁸ Or.2784: fol.2v.

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