The Story of Umar an-Nu'mân (Thousand and One Nights, Manchester ms, p157)

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The Story of Umar an-Nu'mân (Thousand and One Nights, Manchester ms, p157)

The Story of Umar an-Nu'mân (Thousand and One Nights, Manchester ms, p157)

Description

The golden-hatted figure seated on the left on a curule seat and flanked by a guard is King Umar an-Nu'mân. He receives the emissary of the Basileus of Constantinople, who asks him for military aid against the king of Caesarea, whom he accuses of felony. The emissary's seat is not a curule seat, which is the seat of command, and his headdress is simpler.

This is an interior scene: the characters are barefoot.

History :
  1. Rubric: Ṣūrat al-malik wa laylat al-thāminah wa-sabʿīn baʿd al-miʾatayn. Image of the king, and the seventy-eighth night after the two hundred.
  2. P. 157. 278th night.
Textual Sources :
Les Mille et une nuits (hors corpus Galland)
ANE039, ’Umar an-Nu'mân, nuits 46-49, Pléiade, I, 371-391

Technical Data

Notice #025373

Image HD

Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Bibliothèque numérique de l'université de Manchester (https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/allCollections)
Copyright / Photographer :
Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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