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Illustration from
Maqamat of al-Hariri
St.Petersburg manuscript C-23 of c. 1225-35
p.260, Abu Zayd asks to be taken aboard a Ship
Scene from Maqama 39
Assemlies (Maqāmāt) of al-Harīrī: Abū Zayd asks to be taken aboard a Ship (Thirty-ninth Maqāma).
Baghdad (Iraq), c. 1225-1235, (154x204 mm.) MS. S 23, page 260, Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences, Leningrad.
Source: Arab painting by Richard Ettinghausen
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