The Bodleian Libraries’ important 12th-century copy of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book of Fixed Stars, an illustrated Arabic treatise on the Constellations is now available online via Digital Bodleian and Fihrist.
Author: Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Title: Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
Shelfmark: MS. Huntington 212
Date: 1170
Collection: Oriental
Source: Bodleian Libraries
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