

Artwork details
- Date:
- 1616
- Medium:
- paper, brush
- Dimensions:
- 843 × 1393 px
- Museum record:
- View original



Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

Folio from a Persian Manafi‘ al-Hayawan (The Benefits of Animals) of Abu Said Ubaid-Allah ibn Jibrail ibn Bakhtishu (died 1058–68) (verso)

Manuscript pages showing battle scenes

Text, Folio 9 (verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

The First Adventure of the White Horse, Page from the Khan Khanan's Razm Nama (Book of Wars)

Arjuna Slays Karna, from a copy of the Razmnama

Page of disasters, from the Tarikh-i Alfi (History of a Thousand Years)

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
![Nushirwan Listens to the Owls (recto): Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from a Manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, Makhzan al-Asrar [Treasure of Secrets]](/api/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org%2F1944.487.a%2F1944.487.a_web.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
Nushirwan Listens to the Owls (recto): Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from a Manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, Makhzan al-Asrar [Treasure of Secrets]

Dood van Rustam en van Shaghad, een episode uit Firdausi's Shahnama (voltooid in 1010)

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night

Rustam met draak

The Story of Hushang, from a Majma al-tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru (recto)

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

Page with Two Columns of Persian Writing

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Vabhruvahana Approaches Arjuna, page from the Khan Khanan's Razm-nama

"Benefits of the Parts of Vultures" (From the Manafi' al-Haywan of Abu Sai'd Ubayd-Allay Ibn Bakhtishu)

"Benefits of the Parts of Vultures" (From the Manafi' al-Haywan of Abu Sai'd Ubayd-Allay Ibn Bakhtishu) (recto)

An East African King Receives Three Emissaries, from a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi