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Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Mir Musavvir

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows two pages from a book. The pages are yellowed and aged. The left page contains a colorful illustration. The illustration depicts a man on horseback stabbing another figure with a sword. The horse is brown with a blue blanket. The rider wears an orange and blue outfit. The figure being stabbed is white with black hair and wears a white outfit. There are trees and foliage around them in shades of purple, blue, green, and orange. There are four blocks of text above and one below the illustration, written in black calligraphy on a beige background. The right page contains a large block of text written in black calligraphy, divided into two columns. There is a blue and gold design in the lower third of the text block.

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