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Bashir confides his love for Habbaza to an Arab friend, and sends him to her with a message, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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Bahir’s friend, wearing yellow, appears both in the upper register and outside Habbaza’s tent.

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