Akbar and Alexander the Great
February 28, 2023 2:25 PM Subscribe

Iskandar explored the Western regions and at the edge of the world encountered a shore where there were many coloured stones, blue, red, yellow and black, each weighing about five to ten pou Highlights from the Mughal Emperor Akbar's personal copy of an illustrated manuscript of Nizami's Iskandernameh or Life of Alexander The Great.
posted by MarianHalcombe (2 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite

For me, the layout of the first article is better on its first published appearance in the British Library’s Asian and African Studies blog.
posted by zamboni at 4:41 PM on February 28, 2023 [2 favorites]

These are fantastically beautiful. Even the borders are wonderful.
posted by surlyben at 11:25 AM on March 1, 2023

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