The Old Man Encounters a Youth

The thirteen illustrations in this manuscript of the Five Poems (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi are attributed to Bihzad, renowned as the greatest of all Persian painters. He worked in Herat (then part of Iran) at the court of the Timurid ruler Husayn Bayqara, who appointed him head of the royal atelier, a position previously held only by calligraphers.