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Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 453
This page from an anthology of Persian poetry illustrates a poem about the moon as it enters the houses of all twelve zodiac signs. In the three scenes here, the moon is shown visiting Gemini, depicted as two youths with joined, reptilelike tails, then in the house of Cancer, a large, scaly crab, and finally seated next to the lion of Leo.

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  • Title: Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
  • Author: Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi (Iranian, active 1340s)
  • Date: dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE
  • Geography: Made in Iran, Isfahan
  • Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
  • Dimensions: H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
    W. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
  • Classification: Codices
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919
  • Object Number: 19.68.1
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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