

Artwork details
- Date:
- 1500 - 1600
- Medium:
- paper, brush
- Dimensions:
- 843 × 1386 px
- Museum record:
- View original



Siyavush on His Horse Hitting a Rolling Target, from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025) (recto)

Koninklijke jachtpartij

Iskander met wijsgeer en paard

Dame in een grot in een rotslandschap met herten

Arjuna Slays Karna, from a copy of the Razmnama

As punishment, the jester’s wife and the Zangi are thrown into fire and the emir’s wife and the mahout are trampled by an elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Twenty-second Night

Jager onthoofdt een man

Krijger te paard doorklieft een ezel

The wounded monkey bites the hand of the prince, his chessmate, in the presence of guests, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Rustam slaying jackal, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

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

The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras sees the jackal deprived of its food by a bird, as it unsuccessfully attempts to catch a fish, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

Profeet in de wildernis

The pious man’s son presents the slain dragon to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

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

Faribus doodt Kulbad

Polospelers

Khusrau, the King of Kings, pays homage to the pious daughter of Khassa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night

The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Khusran en Shimi

Ruiter te paard en een bedelaar

Luipaard doodt een hond

The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night