The fourth man digs at the spot where he dropped the shell, expecting jewels, but discovering mere iron, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

Farhad tekee maitojohtoa Shirinin palatsiin

Unknown Artist

The emir slays the snake after giving it shelter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-fifth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Twee liggende figuren in een arcadisch landschap

anonymous

A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album

Basavana

Shahnameh-aihe

Unknown Artist

The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Rustende vorst onder een boom

anonymous

The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night

Bihzad

Groep mannen in een rotslandschap met een heiligenfiguur

anonymous

The gardener seizes and beats a donkey who insisted on braying, while the deer, its companion flees to safety, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Vrouw, die rust onder een boom

anonymous