Date | Description | Source | Reference |
1569-70 A.D. | Red yurt, red vent surrounded by three rings (black, yellow the another black ring), roof and walls are decorated with white designs, foliage and flowers, the roof edge decoration is a black band with white flowers and foliage, the rectangular door is outlined in a heavy black line, the door is light green in colour with red flowers and foliage, the yurt is surrounded by a decorative waist high green fabric fence. | “Figure 27. From the same manuscript as under No.s 25 - 26. An episode
from the second book of Masnavi (treating of different kinds of love),
which relates how a female slave of the Caliph of Baghdad fell in love
with a fellow-slave. The miniature, which shows signs of decline in composition,
is probably the work of another artist than the painters of No.s 25 - 26,
28 and 29.”
“Jami: Silsilatu’z-zahab (The Golden Chain)...Calligraphist: Baba Shah. Dated A.H. 977 (A..D. 1569 - 70). Gulistan Library, Teharan, Iran. |
Kubicková, V., Persian Miniatures, London, 1965, Fig 27. |
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