Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi 1475 - 1499

This illustrated manuscript, "Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars)," was created by `Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, a 10th-century Persian astronomer, and is a copy dating from 1475-1499. The artwork depicts two representations of the constellation Lupus (the Wolf) from the point of view of a celestial globe, as seen on the page. The top image depicts the constellation as it would appear to an observer in the Southern Hemisphere and the bottom image depicts the same constellation as it would appear to an observer in the Northern Hemisphere. The artist used red dots and Arabic script to label the stars that make up the constellation. The artwork is currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY.