'Jonah and the Whale', Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), ca. 1400, Attributed to Iran, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm), Codices, The story of Jonah and the Whale, mentioned in the Qur'an (37:139), was popular in the Muslim world and frequently illustrated in manuscripts of world history. This large-scale painting, however, never formed part of a manuscript
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