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Laila and Majnun at school, illustration from the 'Khamsa' (Five Poems), by Nizami Ganjavi, 1492-93...

Laila and Majnun at school, illustration from the 'Khamsa' (Five Poems), by Nizami Ganjavi, 1492-93 (vellum)
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Laila and Majnun at school, illustration from the 'Khamsa' (Five Poems), by Nizami Ganjavi, 1492-93 (vellum)
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Persian School, (15th century) / Persian
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British Library, London, UK
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vellum
Date
1492 AD - 1493 AD (C15th AD)
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The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or "five poems" of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th-century Persian poet, which was created for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the early 1590s by a number of artists and a single scribe working at the Mughal court, very probably in Akbar's new capital of Lahore in North India, now in Pakistan. Add. 25900, f.110v The schooldays of Layla and Majnun. A miniature painting from a fifteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken from Khamsa.. Originally published/produced in Herat, 1492-1493.

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