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Illustration from

Maqāmāt of al-Hariri
(Abou Mohammad al-Qāsim ibn ‛Ali ibn Mohammad ibn ‛Ali al-Hariri al-Basri)
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies,
manuscript C-23, c. 1225-35
Maqama 43, The Story of the Lost Traveling Companion



Source: The Yorck Project 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei



A bedouin in his tent shows Abu Zayd the sandal he had lost.
Miniature, Arabic, Iraq, circa 1240.
26.5 × 21.5 cm.
From an illustrated manuscript of the Maqamat of al-Hariri.
Ms C–23, fol. 145 a,
St Petersburg, Inst. of Oriental Studies.
AKG

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