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

Illuminator: Zain al-‘Abidin al-Tabrizi Author: Farid al-Din `Attar (ca. 1142–1220) Date: text: dated A.H. 892/ A.D. 1487; illumination: ca. 1600

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