The four destitute friends go to a wise man who gives each one of them a magic shell to be placed on top of the turban, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night
A page from an illustrated manuscript with text in black ink at the top in a language that uses Arabic script, and an illustration below. The illustration shows four men sitting around a fifth man who is standing. The standing man wears an orange tunic and a white and blue turban and holds a long, thin object up to the top of his turban. The seated men each wear colorful tunics and turbans. The man on the left sits on a platform and wears a red tunic with gold patterns. The standing man and two of the seated men have dark beards. The man on the far right wears a purple tunic and rests on the platform with his eyes closed. A green roof covers the platform. The background includes a white wall with blue and gold patterns. A single window is visible on the right. A small section of red border surrounds the illustration.
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