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Qazwini 1547 Deccan

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drawing of a young single-horned rhino in a manuscript prepared in 1547 at the court of Ibrahim Adil Shah I (1534–1558), Sultan of Bijapur in South India (fig. 09-07). The ?Aja’ib al-makhluqat by Qazw?n? (1547) was translated from Arabic to Persian and illuminated with 461 small paintings (preserved in the British Library, Or.1621).
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