File:Unknown, Iraq - The Book of Fixed Stars - Google Art Project.jpg

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The Book of Fixed Stars
Artist
Unknown, Iraq, 1100-1125 (Iraq)
Title
The Book of Fixed Stars
title QS:P1476,en:"The Book of Fixed Stars"
label QS:Len,"The Book of Fixed Stars"
Object type manuscript
object_type QS:P31,Q87167
Description
A 12th-century Iraqi illustrated manuscript of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars. The left hand page describes Corona Borealis (The Northern Crown), while the right hand page tabulates the stars in the preceding constellation Boötes (The Herdsman).
Date (1100 - 1125)
Dimensions height: 50 mm (1.96 in); width: 185 mm (7.28 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,185U174789
The Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
Current location
Level Floor 2 / الطابق 2 (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Gallery 9 (Details of room on Google Art Project)
Accession number
MS.2.1998
Notes More info at museum site
References
  • Al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars and its Influence on Islamic and Western Celestial Cartography - includes a detailed bibliography and a list of all known manuscripts of al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Fixed Stars. See also an associated PowerPoint Presentation.
  • David Anthony King, Barbara Brend & Robert Hillenbrand, “A Previously Unrecorded Illustrated Manuscript of the Kitāb Suwar al-Kawākib of al-Sūfī, Copied and Illustrated in Baghdād in A.D. 1125”, Sotheby’s [Catalogue]: Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, Wednesday 29 April 1998, pp. 32-48 [lot 34]
Source/Photographer Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

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