For #ManuscriptMonday: Asian #Elephants & Indian #Rhinoceroses!
Lovely miniatures in a c.1590-3 imperial illuminated manuscript of The Memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30)
British Library OR 3714, f. 378r + 379r
"Originally written in Chaghatai Turkish and translated into Persian at his grandson Akbar’s request by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān."
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