TWO LOOSE ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM AN ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPT
Punjab or Northern India, 19th century

TWO LOOSE ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS FROM AN ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPT
Punjab or Northern India, 19th century

Opaque pigments and ink on wove paper, each folio illustrated on both the verso and recto with vertical-format figural motifs depicting night sky star studies including the constellations of Pisces, the Big Dipper, and Aquila, following the study of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's astronomical text The Book of Fixed Stars, and other figures like a man holding a sword and a decapitated head and another man holding a long snake, possibly representing Ophiuchus constellation, some images accompanied by red ink naskh identifying inscriptions, and some with roundels locating the position of the fixed stars they represent, mounted on white cardboard, the largest folio 21.5cm x 14.2cm, 48.5cm x 38.5cm including the moun

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Dimensions: the largest folio 21.5cm x 14.2cm, 48.5cm x 38.5cm including the mount