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Khusraw Watches Shirin Bathing (Add MS 25900, f. 44v)

c. 1490 (unconfirmed)

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The story

This copy of Nizami's Khamsa was written out in the 1440s, but most of its paintings were added about fifty years later in Herat. The manuscript later found its way to Mughal India and finally to the British Library.

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Object details

Title: Khusraw Watches Shirin Bathing (Add MS 25900, f. 44v)
Artist: Persian painter (Timurid, Herat)
Date: c. 1490 (unconfirmed)
Culture: Persian
Medium: Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Object type: Paintings
Collection: British Library, London (Add MS 25900)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1217
Original image: 1894 × 3000 px
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Persian painter (Timurid, Herat). Khusraw Watches Shirin Bathing (Add MS 25900, f. 44v). c. 1490 (unconfirmed). British Library, London (Add MS 25900). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1217/