Page from the Manafi al-Hayavan, 14th century, 9 x 6 3/4 in. ( x cm) (sheet), Ink and color on paper, Iran, 14th century, This folio depicting two stags comes from a dispersed copy of a medical text titled Manafi al-Hayavan (On the Uses Derived from Animals); a Christian doctor who was a court physician to the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad wrote the original in Arabic in 941. In the late thirteenth century, the Mongol ruler of Iran and Iraq, Ghazan Khan, ordered a copy of the Manafi to be translated into Persian.

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