Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

Five Poems (Quintet)

Scribe: Yadkar al-Katib

Author: Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, d. 605 AH/AD 1209)

Date (Period): 934-935 AH/AD 1528-1529 (Safavid)

In this folio from Walters manuscript W.607, the Prophet Muhammad is depicted ascending on Buraq led by the angel Gabriel.

http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=17718



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