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Persian Poetry, Painting and Patronage, by Marianne Shreve Simpson.
This ravishing, brief book illustrates to scale and in color the paintings from the Freer Gallery of Abdul-Rahman Jami's Seven Thrones, a 16thcentury classic of Persian literature, illustrated by five Iranian court artists. A brief introduction situates the manuscript, made for Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, in its broad cultural context. Each folio illustration is accompanied...





