Description
This illustration from Walters manuscript W.624 depicts the story told to Bahram Gur by the princess of the yellow pavilion. It is a tale of a woman who foolishly implicates her husband, a goldsmith, in a crime against the king. He is thus imprisoned in a high tower. He decides to trick his dim-witted wife so that she will exchange places with him. The image shows how the goldsmith lowers himself down and his wife up to the tower.
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