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The rejuvenated old man and the daughter of the king of the jinns take leave of the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night

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

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The old man emerges from the boiling oil eighteen years old and beardless.

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