Illuminated Manuscript, Five poems (quintet), An illustrated copy of the Khamsah (Quintet) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī ( AH / 1325 CE) penned by Pīr Ḥusayn al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī in 935 AH / 1529 CE. This codex opens with a double-page decoration and has four other illuminated incipit pages introducing the individual books. There are 13 illustrations and the whole is bound in 19th century lacquer covers decorated with hunting scenes. Iskandar (Alexander the Great) entertains Kanīfū

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