Folio from a Rawdat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand (d. 1498); verso: illustration and text, Muhammad converses with Nestor; recto: text, On the events of the twenty-fifth years of Muhammad’s birth, his trip to Damascus and his marriage to Khadijeh Kobra

Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Rawdat al-safa fi sirat al-anbiya’ wa-al-muluk wa-al-khulafa (Garden of purity on the lives of the prophets, kings, and caliphs) by Muhammad b. Khwandshah (known as Mirkhwand); text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; heading in gold; recto: text: On the events of the twenty-fifth years of Mohammad’s birth, His trip to Damascus and his marriage to Khadija Kobra, one column, twenty-five lines; verso: illustration and text: Muhammad converses with Nestor; one of a group of twenty folios.
Border: The painting is set in red, gold, and black rulings on a paper with landscape and animal motifs; the text is set in red, gold, and black rulings on cream-colored paper.