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  • Title: Bahram Gur Listens to the Tale of the Tartar Princess of the Green Pavilion
  • Creator: Shaykhi Jan al-Hafiz al-Salmasi
  • Description: The manuscript narrates a prince’s spiritual progression as he hears seven tales of wisdom told on successive nights by his seven would-be brides. Each bride is lodged beneath a pavilion the color of which corresponds to that of her dominant planet. Here Barham Gur visits the Green Pavilion of Princess Pari Naz, who is identified with the moon (believed to be a planet in the fifteenth century).
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Astrology Islam Nizâmi (Persian author, 1141-1209)
  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 15
  • Date: 1475
  • Related Work: Nizâmi, Haft Paykar/Haft Gunbad/Seven Beauties
  • Current Location: Istanbul, Library of the Topkapì Sarayì Museum, H. 726/K. 412, f. 180v
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illustrations
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Ink; Colors; Gold; Paper
  • Donor: Layman; Sultan Ya’qûb of the Turcoman clan of the White Sheep, Tabrîz
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