Iran/Persia: Students studying astronomy with their teacher, reading measurements from an astrolabe. Miniature painting from a 15th century Persian manuscript. A Persian miniature is a small painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better.

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