Talkative Tortoise

Image Information: manuscript from Iran, Bukhara. Flight of the Tortoise, From a Manuscript of the Haft Awrang (Tuhfat al-Ahrar or ”Gift of the Free”). 1564-1565. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Weblink.
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