Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu' — Iran, c. 1300

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Credit: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection. CC0.
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: api.artic.edu artworks api: is_public_domain=true on artwork 14545 (read 2026-09-01)
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