The building of the palace of Khvarnaq
from a 1494-1495 copy of the Khamsa ('Five Poems') of Nizami.

Or 6810
Date: 1490-1499
Title: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Content :
The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing one double and 20 single miniatures in the Herat later Timurid style. The attributions to various artists beneath the lower margins of the miniatures were added later but the miniatures on ff. 37v, 135v, 190r, 214r, 225v, and 273r are considered to be possibly the work of Bihzād. One of the paintings (f 284r) is clearly dated 900 AH (1494/95). The history of the manuscript is documented with more than 70 inscriptions and seal impressions dating from 1564/65 to 1782.

This illustration is from the 4th poem, the Haft paykar. Folio 154v, The building of the palace of Khavarnaq for Nu‛mān an Arab chief who was the guardian of the young Bahrām Gūr. Ascribed to Bihzād.
British Library, Ms Or. 6810