The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Shaikh Mahneh and the Villager", Folio 49r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar
- Date
- 1487
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) W. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
- Object type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- present-day Afghanistan
- Object number
- 63.210.49
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1963
- Gallery
- 455
Artist information
Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur
Subjects and terms
- Fruit
- Scales
- Ox
- Men
The Met object ID 451733. 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.