Illustration from

Kalîla and Dimna

of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, and ʿAbd Allâh (translator - to Fars), 15th century

folio 88r, fable: Le dévot et la mangouste.

The devotee and the mongoose.

Executed under the Mamelukes, perhaps as early as 1350. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 3467

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