"These watercolours come from a bound manuscript written by a rammal — or soothsayer — in Isfahan, Iran. According to Ali Karjoo-Ravary, the paintings were added one or two decades after the composition of the text — a treatise on spells and demons, “among other creatures, that are associated with each sign of the zodiac.”More: The Public Domain Review
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
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