Illustration from the manuscript of the Romance of Varqa and Gulshah, c.1250.

FIG. 19.-35, 33b: Même scène sous un cyprès avec un oiseau; à gauche et à droite, des plantes; à gauche un coq et un corbeau en position de combat.
FIG. 19.-35, 33b: Same scene under a cypress with a bird to left and to right, plants; to the left a crow and a rooster in a fighting position
Varqa farewells Gulshah amongst trees and birds

Varqa farewells Gulshah amongst trees and birds

Varqa pays a farewell visit to his lover Gulshah before his departure for Yemen.
They stand amongst trees and birds.

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