English: The beasts gathering before Solomon and Bilqis
‘The picture of the assembly of His Holiness Solomon and Bilqis (the Queen of Sheba), and the appearance of wild animals, birds, monsters, and fairies in front of that Holiness, and Asaf ibn Barkhiya who was the minister of that Holiness sitting on the opposite throne’.
The treatment of this spread differs form all the others: the margins of this and the facing folio are illuminated, and the text (folio 22a) is written within clouds reserved on gold-illuminated ground.
This Falnamah ('Book of Divination') is one of the few complete — or near complete — copies of the work to have survived. It consists of a series of 35 double-page openings, each with a large min ... See full description on web site.
DescriptionKhalili Collection Islamic Art mss 0979 fol 21b.jpg
Falnamah ('Book of Divination')
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