"Bizhan Receives an Invitation through Manizha's Nurse", Folio 300v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp ca. 1525–30 Abu'l Qasim Firdausi Bizhan's envious companion, Gurgin, suggests they attend a festival near Irman but over the border, in Turan, and abduct the prettiest girls. Bizhan enters a grove alone to spy on the girls, but Manizha, the daughter of Afrasiyab, notices him and sends her maid to learn all she can about him. When the maid reports that Bizhan has told her, Manizha invites him to her "Bizhan Receives an Invitation through Manizha's Nurse", Folio 300v from
"Bizhan Receives an Invitation through Manizha's Nurse", Folio 300v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp ca. 1525–30 Abu'l Qasim Firdausi Bizhan's envious companion, Gurgin, suggests they attend a festival near Irman but over the border, in Turan, and abduct the prettiest girls. Bizhan enters a grove alone to spy on the girls, but Manizha, the daughter of Afrasiyab, notices him and sends her maid to learn all she can about him. When the maid reports that Bizhan has told her, Manizha invites him to her "Bizhan Receives an Invitation through Manizha's Nurse", Folio 300v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp 452151
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