The Lunar Calendar

​​Title: The Lunar Calendar I Date: Approximately 13th-century I Material: Ink and paint on paper I Language: Arabic I Type of Resource: Text and illustration fragment I Place: Cairo I Accession Number: TS-K-010-003-B
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The Lunar calendar illustration manuscript in Arabic with ink and paint, dated approximately 13th century.
The edges of the page are frayed. Jews and Muslims follow the lunar calendar for religious rituals. This fragment is simply line framed with a large almond-shaped eye, arched eyebrows and the Arabic style of personification of the planet Sun with a face placed at the centre of the frame. It is surrounded by descriptions of the months according to the phases of the moon in a one month-cycle. Each of the moons is coloured according to phases by using red colour.