A royal court gathers beside tents on a green hillside

Two registers of a royal encampment: above, a man in a gold-dotted black robe sits on a raised gold dais beneath a canopy, attended by turbaned courtiers in blue and capped attendants in orange, with two white peaked tents on a green hillside beneath a blue sky. Below, more courtiers in white turbans stand together on a green floral ground near gold and blue vessels and a harp. Columns of black nasta'liq verse run down the right margin within a blue-and-gold border, from an illustrated Khusrau and Shirin by Hatifi.

Persian miniature painting reached its height in the manuscript workshops of Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz and Isfahan between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on polished paper, a folio combined text, illumination and image on a single page, and the finest illustrated copies of the Shahnameh, the Khamsa of Nizami and the Conference of the Birds were commissioned by Timurid, Safavid and Mughal courts. Leaves from these dispersed manuscripts are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library, the Chester Beatty Library and the Freer Gallery of Art.

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