Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami, 1509–10
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Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Author Nizami (present-day Azerbaijan, Ganja 1141–1209 Ganja)

1509–10

Medium
Leather; tooled and gilded; ink on paper
Classification
Codices
Dimensions
H. 11 1/2 (29.2 cm) W. 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm) D. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Culture
Iran
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
Credit line
Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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