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

Hilya-i Nabi (Description of the Prophet), 1691, by Hafiz Osman (Turkish).
Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, T 559.4.
Photograph © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, www.cbl.ie.