The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
The image depicts a scene from a book with text written in a non-Latin script, likely Persian or Arabic. The top two-thirds of the image features a section of text divided into two parts by a horizontal line. The text is written in black ink on yellowed paper. The bottom third of the image shows an illustration of four people. On the right side, a woman sits on a platform with her left hand to her face and her right hand on her knee. She wears a patterned orange dress and a headscarf. To her left is a window with a blue and white patterned curtain. On the left side of the illustration, three men stand in a semi-circle. The man on the left wears a red tunic and holds a long stick or sword in his right hand. The man in the middle wears a blue tunic and a white and red cap, and the man on the right wears a green tunic and a white and green cap. The background of the illustration is yellow, with a grassy area behind the men. A building with a red and blue patterned wall and a white and red patterned column is behind the woman.
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