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"The Mi'raj or The Night Flight of Muhammad on his Steed Buraq", Folio 3v from a Bustan of Sa`di
Calligrapher Sultan Muhammad Nur (Iranian, ca. 1472–ca. 1536)
ca. 1525–35
- Medium
- Ink, gold, and colors on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) W. 5 in. (12.7 cm) Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
- Culture
- present-day Uzbekistan and Afghanistan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1974
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
