Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, dated A.H. 741/A.D. 1341, Attributed to Iran, Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 6 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (16.8 x 23.2 cm), Codices, This page from an anthology of Persian poetry illustrates a poem about the moon entering the houses of the twelve zodiac signs. In the three scenes illustrated here, the moon is shown visiting the Sagittarius, depicted as an archer who shoots an arrow against his own dragonlike tail, Capricorn, and finally the planet Saturn (the water carrier, or Aquarius) lifting a bucket from a well
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