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Bilqis Queen of Sheba Enthroned, from the Book of Solomon (Suleymannama) by Firdausi of Bursa
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Bilqis Queen of Sheba Enthroned, from the Book of Solomon (Suleymannama) by Firdausi of Bursa

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Bilqis Queen of Sheba Enthroned, from the Book of Solomon (Suleymannama) by Sharaf al-Din Musa, Firdausi of Bursa. Folio, gold and colours on paper, full-page painting depicting Bilqis (the Queen of Sheba) enthroned above horizontal rows of her subjects, including crowned women, angels, demons (divs) and monsters, left half of a double-frontipiece composition, from a manuscript dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Bayazid II, Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1480-1510

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