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Illuminated Frontispiece of a Manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
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Illuminated Frontispiece of a Manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi · text: dated 892 AH/1487 CE; illumination: ca. 1600 · Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

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Credit lineIlluminated Frontispiece of a Manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds). text: dated 892 AH/1487 CE; illumination: ca. 1600. Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1963. CC0.
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