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"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
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"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600 · Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

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Credit line"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds). ca. 1600. Farid al-Din `Attar. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1963. CC0.
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