Category:Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib (al-thābitah) (TSMK, A. 3493)

'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī, dated 525/1130-31 (Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, manuscript Ahmet III 3493, "TSMK, A. 3493" or "A.S.3493"). Copied by Wāthiq ibn ‛Ālī ibn ‛Umar ibn al-Husayn. Probably produced in Mayyafariqin, SE Turkey. [1]

Painting The Stars In A Century Of Change, by Moya Catherine Carey, 2001, p.251 for the colophon

"The costumes and equipment are in the pre-Seljuk tradition" in (1997) Men-at-arms series 171 - Saladin and the saracens, Osprey publishing, p. 33