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The false Mansur punished before the judge and expelled from the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night

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

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The documents before the judge are marked with Arabic script, implying an Islamic context.

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