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Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Illuminated frontispiece, from the Akbarnama
(Book of Akbar)

approx. 1600–1603. India, Mughal period (1526–1857)
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper

Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, In 03.1b–2a.
Photograph © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, www.cbl.ie.