Gold-ruled text-box of two lines of nasta`liq text in red, above two gold-ruled text-columns with 12 lines of nasta`liq text in black. Gold-painted landscape of deer, birds, fox, and a Chinese-style mythical lion with small cub, among flowering plants, trees and rocky hills.
AKM231, Folio from a Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha

© The Aga Khan Museum

Two gold-ruled text-columns with fourteen lines of nasta`liq text in black, mounted on a cream album-folio with gold-painted floral scrolls.
AKM231, Folio from a Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha

© The Aga Khan Museum

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Folio from a Manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha
  • Accession Number:AKM231
  • Creator:Author: Jami, Persian, 1414 - 1492 Scribe: Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi, died 1583
  • Place:Uzbekistan, Bukhara
  • Dimensions:26.3 cm × 15.5 cm
  • Date:1556-57/AH 964
  • Materials and Technique:Ink and gold on paper

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