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Illustration from

the story of Bayad and Riyad, 13th century

Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica, manuscript Vaticano arabo 368 (riserva)

f. 17r. Image of Sumul who speaks to Bayad who is near the garden on the river and she hands him a letter from Riyadh.

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40. The lover Bayāḍ wearing a smaller, round tirāz turban with a pointed cap barely protruding through the winding cloth receives a letter sent by his beloved. The messenger veils the lower part of her face holding her milḥafa there with her right hand (Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican, ms arabo 368, fol. 17).
Source: Fig. 40, Arab Dress. From the dawn of Islam to Modern times by Smirna Si