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Bilqis Queen of Sheba Enthroned, from the Book of Solomon (Suleymannama) by Sharaf al-Din Musa, Firdausi of Bursa.
Folio, gold and colours on paper, full-page painting depicting Bilqis (the Queen of Sheba) enthroned above horizontal rows of her subjects, including crowned women, angels, demons (divs) and monsters, left half of a double-frontipiece composition, from a manuscript dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Bayazid II, Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1480-1510
Bilqis Queen of Sheba Enthroned, from the Book of Solomon (Suleymannama) by Firdausi of Bursa
T 406.2
T_406_2
Turkish collection
Persian (language)
Arabic (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex/Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Approved Place 2018/Asia/Turkey/Istanbul
Approved Place 2018/Asia/Turkey/Istanbul
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Naskh script
1480-1510
1480
1480
1510
1510
true
Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Paper (material)
Pigment (material)
Ink (material)
GOOD
444 mm x 313 mm (height x width)
art
Unknown
Unknown
Istanbul
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