| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1539 - 1543 A.D. | Five tents starting from foreground and working back.
1. A wall tent with a white roof and white high straight sides, complicated geometric roof edge decoration overhangs the wall, the single point guy rope attachment goes under roof edge to top of wall, guy rope goes to apex then splits in two, lining darker in shade with evenly distributed geometric designs, black pole with two light sections visible, probably indicating the join in the pole (similar to tent no. 3). 2. A yurt with a conical roof but with a bulbous roof edge with a hanging light coloured drape, straight sides, no guy ropes visible, cane vent at apex with cover to one side, sides and roof are done in a complicated floral pattern, I suspect the bottom edge hooked up over a white band indicates a door way. 3. A bell tent with a white roof and (sloping) walls, two shade diamond pattern roof edge decoration, guy ropes from top of wall edge and just above bottom edge, a bottom edge skirt with vertical two shade stripes hang a short distance to the ground, lining consists of a dark geometric pattern, pole is very similar to tent no.1, guy rope the same as tent no. 1 and both may be a flap covering a vent as in tent no. 2, and one of the guy ropes over the door way is tied out of the way by tying it to the guy rope next to the door. 4. Black wedge tent, no poles visible, guy ropes from just above wall bottom edge (so good be classed as a ‘wall tent’, lighter interior material. 5. Black wedge tent similar to tent no. 4 but bottom edge not visible. |
“An illustration from the Same Khamsa as ill. 239 by the painter Mir
Sayyid Ali who had been an apprentice of Bihzad in his youth. In 1550 he
went to Kabul and then Delhi. The picture shows Majnun being brought by
a beggar women to Laila’s tent.”
“Tabriz, 1539 - 43. ( Or. Ms 2265 fol. 157v.). British Library.” |
Rice, D.T., Islamic Art, London, 1986, p. 233.
Titley, N., Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the art
of Turkey and India, London, 1983, p 104.
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