Word: bakhtishu
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
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