Illuminated Manuscript, Five poems (quintet), Alexander the Great, unable to destroy a fortress, consults a hermit, 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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