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The horoscope of the Persian Timurid ruler Iskandar Sultan, 1411. This is the only surviving individual illuminated horoscope from medieval Islam. Al-Mizan (Libra) is at 3 o’clock in the circle of zodiac signs..

Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, Or MS PER 474, fols. 70v-70r (ff. 18b-19a).

(via Al-Mizan)

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