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"The Beggar who Professed his Love for a Prince", Folio 28r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Farid al-Din `Attar

Date

dated A.H. 892/ 1487 CE

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting: H. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm) W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) Page: H. 13 1/16 in. (33.2 cm) W. 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

present-day Afghanistan

Object number

63.210.28

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1963

The Met object ID 451729. 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.