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me from surrendering myself to what I saw。

Naturally; I was disappointed to find myself observing more with my mind

than with my heart; despite the great luck of having Allah; in His munificence;

grant me the chance to have my fill of this legendary book before the velvet

curtain of darkness descended over my eyes—the divine grace bestowed upon

all  great  miniaturists。  By  the  time  the  light  of  dawn  reached  the  Treasury;

which had gradually begun to resemble an icy tomb; I’d gazed upon each of

the 259 pictures in this superlative book。 Since I looked with my mind; allow

me  once  more  to  categorize;  as  if  I  were  an  Arab  scholar  interested  only  in

reasoning:

1。  Nowhere  could  I  locate  a  horse  with  nostrils  that  resembled  what  the

wretched murderer had drawn: Not among the variously colored horses that

Rüstem  encountered  while  pursuing  horse  thieves  in  Turan;  not  among

Feridun  Shah’s  extraordinary  horses  which  swam  the  Tigris  after  the  Arab

Sultan  had  denied  him  permission  to  do  so;  not  among  the  gray  horses

sorrowfully watching Tur’s treachery in beheading his younger brother Iraj; of

whom he was jealous because their father; while doling out his territory; gave

the  best  country;  Persia;  and  far  away  China  to  Iraj;  while  leaving  only  the

western lands to Tur; not among the horses of the heroic armies of Alexander

that included Khazars; Egyptians; Berbers and Arabs; all equipped with armor;

iron  shields;  indestructible  swords  and  glimmering  helmets;  not  the  fabled

horse that killed Shah Yazdgird—whose nose bled perpetually as a result of the

divine punishment for rebelling against God’s fate—by trampling him on the

shores of the green lake whose restorative waters eased his affliction; and not

among the hundreds of mythical and perfect horses all drawn by six or seven

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miniaturists。  Yet;  there  was  still  more  than  one  entire  day  ahead  of  me  in

which to examine the other books in the Treasury。

2。 There’s a claim that has been a persistent topic of gossip among master

illuminators for the last twenty…five years: With the express permission of the

Sultan;  an  illustrator  entered  this  forbidden  Treasury;  found  this  spectacular

book; opened it and by candlelight copied into his sketchbook examples of a

number of exquisite horses; trees; clouds; flowers; birds; gardens and scenes of

war and love for later use in his work…Whenever an artist created an amazing

and  exceptional  piece;  jealousy  prompted  such  gossip  from  the  others;  who

sought  to  belittle  the  picture  as  nothing  but  Persian  work  from  Tabriz。  Back

then;  Tabriz  was  not  Ottoman  territory。  When  such  slander  was  directed  at

me;  I  felt  justifiably  angry;  yet  secretly  proud;  but  when  I  heard  the  same

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