Illuminated folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
about 1475–1500; border: about 1550
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In the border surrounding the Persian poetical text, deer and a lion coexist peacefully in a forest. This imagery may reference the rule of a righteous king. The text is from the Gulistan, one of the most celebrated works of Persian literature, completed around 1258. Gulistan...
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