Mir Sayyid Ali, Life in the City and Life in the Camp.
Date Description Source Reference
1540 A.D. Four bell tents, two yurts one wedge tent and probably two wall tents. From front to back. 

White bell tent, domed apex, vent cover tied to the roof edge in the centre top of the doorway. The roof edge guy ropes are connected to the roof edge above the wall edge apron. The guy ropes above the door way are tied to the guy ropes on either side of the door way. The wall edge apron is in a geometric pattern in blue, red, yellow and white, a different pattern is hung over the door. The wall is rolled up on the right side and the toggles can be seen on the top of the wall edge. The interior walls are decorated in ornate blue panels with evenly spaced decorations of flowers on a dark blue background. The pole is red in colour, the two dark sections near the roof edge indicates the join. The centre of the pole is a blue section with gold line decoration, the base of the pole is also coloured blue. 

White wall tent, brown decoration around the two pole apexes, one guy rope extends from both poles, the short walls are coloured in diagonal strips of alternate light and dark blue. The guy ropes (blue and white) visible show two guy ropes from each attachment point to a single peg. One of the two poles can be seen through the open door. I suggest the apes is on a wooden disc on the inside of the tent. 

Red yurt with floral design on dark blue patterns and fantastic birds, the vent cover is slightly to the side showing the cane vent, the rectangular door is flanked by two decorated rectangles, above the door is a roll of pale blue cloth. Behind the people in the tent the wall uprights can be seen. 

Dark green wedge tent with lighter green interior, only the left pole and pole apex are visible, from the disc apex the guy rope (blue and white) is held by a single peg. 

Green bell tent (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 blue and white stripes hang a short distance to the ground, 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. The guy ropes are red and white in colour. 

Blue and red geometric patterned yurt, just the roof is visible, the cane vent is completely open. 

White bell tent with flat top apex (with brown decoration), red and white guy ropes from above the roof edge decoration, roof edge decoration consists of green diamond shapes inside thin red then thick blue lines which cris cross the band. 

Tan tent similar to the previously mentioned white wall tent, could be a wedge tent. 

Obscured bell tent, probably the same as the flat top white bell tent mentioned above. Roof edge decorative band consists of blue lines around white diamonds in green diamonds.

“...Double-page composition, probably from the copy of Nizami’s ‘Khamsa” in the British Museum by Mir Sayyid Ali. Tabriz, Iran. c. 1540. ‘Life in the City and Life in the Camp...Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambrige Mass.” Grube, E.J., The World of Islam, London, 1966, p. 127.

Meyers, S. & Copplestone, T., Asian Art, London, 1966.

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