Illuminated Manuscript, Five poems (quintet), Hermes, in front of Alexander the Great, and the Greek scholars who disagreed with him, This illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece. Each of the five poems begins with an illuminated headpiece, and there are thirty-six illustrations. The lacquer binding is not original to the manuscript

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