SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1510

For a very similar copy of the Khamsa dated 1513, see Adel Adamova & Manijeh Bayani, Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture, The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, London, 2015, cat.22, pp.335-65. These paintings and the illustrations in the al-Sabah manuscript both depict densely populated scenes filled with figures, flowering plants and lively architecture. Basil Robinson commented that this was a typical feature of the transition from late Turkman to early Safavid painting in Shiraz (A. Adamova & M. Bayani, op.cit., p.335).
The paintings in this manuscript include:

From the Makhzan al-asrar
1. Anushirvan hears the owls remarking on the number of ruined villages
2. Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman

From Khusraw va shirin
3. The elders beg Hurmuzd to forgive Khusraw
4. Khusraw spies on the bathing Shirin
5. Khusraw arrives at the foot of Shirin's castle

From Layla va majnun
6. Layla and Majnun at school
7. Majnun is brought to the Ka'ba by his father
8. Majnun is brought to Layla's tent by the old woman

From the Haft paykar
9. Title page
10. Bahram Gur shoots a lion and a wild ass with a single arrow
11. Bahram Gur master shot
12. Mahan plagued by demons in the wilderness
13. Bahram Gur and the shepherd who hanged his dog

From the Sharafnama
14. The dying Dara counsels Iskandar
15. Iskandar lassoes the Russian champion

From the Iqbalnama
16. Title page
17. Iskandar stops in front of the beautiful peasant youth