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Human body with anatomical terms. The writing is in a good professional hand. From a Persian manuscript with a seal bearing the words: Murajiah va taftish shud. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_body_with_anatomical_terms,_Persian,_1893_Wellcome_L0012605.jpg

The Book of Fixed Stars is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. The book was written in Arabic, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy’s Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Fixed_Stars