Cleveland Museum of Art
The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
c. 1560
The illegible writing on the musician’s book seems derived from an Indian script, rather than Arabic or Persian.
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