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English:

Manuscript illumination with depiction of a court scene. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Islamic. Date/Period: Fatimid.

Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive.

CORRECTION:
LANGUAGE: The three lines of text in the page of this manuscript are in Persian (not Arabic). They seem to be coming from the Persian version of Kalila wa Dimna by Abu'l Ma'ali Nasrallah Munshi, from the chapter "The King and the Brahmans" (باب الملک و البراهمة) aka "The story of the wise Bilar" (p.338, p.338): see discussion here
DATING AND ATTRIBUTION: As for the date, the first known Persian-language illustrated manuscript is known to be the Varka and Golshah, attributable to Konya in Central Anatolia c.1250 CE.^[1][2] All other Persian language illustrated manuscript start with the Mongol period (around 1280 for the earliest, described in the article "Persian miniature")... So this one necessarily dates to circa 1300 or after. It is probably 14-15th century Ilkhanid or Jalayarid.

पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 17:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)