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Illustration

Ibolya Horvath
by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
published on 26 March 2018

Collection of poems (divan), King Solomon and the hoopoe who brought news from Queen Sheba, Walters Manuscript W.636, fol. 84a
An illustrated copy of the collection of poems (Dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī who flourished in the 14th century CE. The present codex was copied by Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī in1796 CE in India and contains 48 miniatures.

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Manuscripts, W. A. M. I. (2018, March 26). King Solomon and the Hoopoe. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8472/king-solomon-and-the-hoopoe/

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