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"Sultan Listening to a Man Reading from a Manuscript", Folio from a Manuscript by Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

Date

early 16th century

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

H. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm) W. 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

present-day Uzbekistan

Object number

40.39.1

Credit line

Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940

The Met object ID 449689. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.