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This paper discusses the six surviving frontispieces from an originally 20-volume luxury manuscript of the Kitab al-Aghani ("The Book of Songs") produced in Mosul, Iraq between 1216-1220. The illustrations were limited to just one per volume and confined to depictions of the ruler or court life. This created problems of repetition across images and limited stylistic variety. Additionally, the large scale of some images with dominant rulers threatened to unbalance the compositions due to insufficient seconda

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Briana Moore

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