Manuscripts16th century
Layla visiting Majnun in the Desert (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d. 1492)
c. 1540
Dimensions
31.6 x 20.5 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Provenance
[Sotheby's 7-8 July 1980, lot 202], sold to [Spinks, London, 4 November 1980], sold; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1980, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.
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