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Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar's Illustrated Khamsa, 1597–98
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The story of the princess of the Blue Pavilion: the youth of Rum is entertained in a garden by a fairy and her maidens
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Manohar
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 159798
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper; 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913 (13.228.33)
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