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f. 7v, Sultan Murad III Marvels at the Manuscript
f. 7v, Sultan Murad III Marvels at the Manuscript
f. 8v, The Image of Aries
f. 8v, The Image of Aries
f. 10v, The Image of Taurus
f. 10v, The Image of Taurus
f. 12v, The Image of Gemini
f. 12v, The Image of Gemini
f. 14v, The Image of Cancer
f. 14v, The Image of Cancer
f. 16v, The Image of Leo
f. 16v, The Image of Leo
f. 20v, The Image of Libra
f. 20v, The Image of Libra
f. 24v, The Image of Sagittarius
f. 24v, The Image of Sagittarius
f. 30v, The Image of Pisces
f. 30v, The Image of Pisces
f. 33r, The Different Professions Associated with the Seven Planets
f. 33r, The Different Professions Associated with the Seven Planets
f. 33v, The exaltation and dejection of Saturn and Jupiter
f. 33v, The exaltation and dejection of Saturn and Jupiter
f. 34r, The exaltation and dejection of Mars and the Sun
f. 34r, The exaltation and dejection of Mars and the Sun
f. 34v, The exaltation and dejection of Venus and Mercury
f. 34v, The exaltation and dejection of Venus and Mercury
f. 35r, The exaltation of the Moon and of the Head and the Tail and the dejection of the Moon
f. 35r, The exaltation of the Moon and of the Head and the Tail and the dejection of the Moon
f. 36r, The Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Moon
f. 36r, The Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Moon
<p>f. 63r, On the science of physiognomy</p>

f. 63r, On the science of physiognomy

<p>f. 63r, On the science of physiognomy, translation</p>

f. 63r, On the science of physiognomy, translation

<p>f. 63r, Traducción</p>

f. 63r, Traducción

<p>f. 65v, On the physiognomy of womankind</p>

f. 65v, On the physiognomy of womankind

<p>f. 65v, On the physiognomy of womankind. Translation</p>

f. 65v, On the physiognomy of womankind. Translation

<p>f. 65v, Sobre la ciencia de la fisionomía de las mujeres, traducción</p>

f. 65v, Sobre la ciencia de la fisionomía de las mujeres, traducción

f. 65v, La science de la physionomie appliquée aux femmes et aux hommes - traduction
f. 65v, La science de la physionomie appliquée aux femmes et aux hommes - traduction
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama (On spasms - Translation)
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama (On spasms - Translation)
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama (On spasms - Translation)
f. 66r, The Ikhtilajnama (On spasms - Translation)
f. 74v, The Image of the <em>Qibla</em> of the World, the Majestic Ka<sup>c</sup>ba
f. 74v, The Image of the Qibla of the World, the Majestic Kacba
f. 75v, Alexander and Khidr Enter the Land of Darkness
f. 75v, Alexander and Khidr Enter the Land of Darkness
f. 76r, the Wall of Gog and Magog
f. 76r, the Wall of Gog and Magog
f. 76v, The Lighthouse of Alexandria
f. 76v, The Lighthouse of Alexandria
f. 77r, The Mosque of the Umayyads in Damascus
f. 77r, The Mosque of the Umayyads in Damascus
f. 79r, The Church of the Starlings
f. 79r, The Church of the Starlings
f. 79v, Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea
f. 79v, Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea
f. 80r, The Abandoned Well
f. 80r, The Abandoned Well
f. 81r, The Sorcerer’s Ship
f. 81r, The Sorcerer’s Ship
f. 82v, The Baths of Tiberias
f. 82v, The Baths of Tiberias
f. 83r, The Tale of the Land of the Tribe of Monkeys
f. 83r, The Tale of the Land of the Tribe of Monkeys
f. 83v, A Man Killing a Snake
f. 83v, A Man Killing a Snake
f. 84r, The Mountain of the Birds
f. 84r, The Mountain of the Birds
f. 84v, The Valley of Sri Lanka and its Gems
f. 84v, The Valley of Sri Lanka and its Gems
f. 85v, The Talisman of King Maymun
f. 85v, The Talisman of King Maymun
f. 88v, The Talisman of the Red King
f. 88v, The Talisman of the Red King
f. 90r, The Talisman of Fever
f. 90r, The Talisman of Fever
f. 90v, The Laughing Snake
f. 90v, The Laughing Snake
f. 131v, The Divination of the Prophet Sulayman (Solomon)
f. 131v, The Divination of the Prophet Sulayman (Solomon)

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f. 35r, The exaltation of the Moon and of the Head and the Tail and the dejection of the Moon
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f. 35r, The exaltation of the Moon and of the Head and the Tail and the dejection of the Moon. These four consecutive pages deal...

These four consecutive pages deal with the images of the exaltation, or apogee (sharaf) and dejection, or perigee (hubut), of the seven traditional planets and of the Lunar Node (see also f. 24v). Apogee and perigee are astronomical terms that define the points most distant from and closest to the earth, especially in reference to the elliptical orbit of the Moon or a man-made satellite rotating around Earth. In astrology, exaltation and dejection have the general meaning of the point of maximum or minimum influence of a planet in association with one of the constellations or, in pictorial terms, with one of the signs of the zodiac.
Each page has four vignettes with a title written in red ink inside a cloud-shaped cartouche. The general title in gold ink above reads simply, “The Demonstration of the Exaltation and Dejection of …” followed by the name of the two planets depicted underneath. The background behind the cartouches and between vignettes is richly ornamented with tiny coloured flowers and scrolls against gold or white. The simple solution the painter found to illustrate the contrast between exaltation and dejection was to depict the planet upright for the former and, for the latter, upside down in close association with the sign of the zodiac against the backdrop of a cloudy sky in keeping with the iconography found in the Treatise of Nativities (ff. 8v-32v). Thus, the two vignettes on the upper half of f. 33v deal with Saturn’s exaltation in Libra (the scale) and dejection in Aries (the ram). On the lower half are Jupiter’s exaltation in Cancer (the crab) and dejection in Capricorn (the goat). The opposite page (f. 34r) illustrates Mars’s maximum influence in the sign of Capricorn and minimum in Cancer and those of the Sun in Aries and Libra, thus reversing the images of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively, from the previous page.


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