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

Album of calligraphy, 1500–1800, by Seyh Hamdullah (Turkish).
Opaque watercolors and ink on paper with sheepskin and gold cover

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Acquired by Henry Walters, W.672.
Photograph © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.