Illustration depicting Khosrow and Shirin playing polo with their attendants. The detail (below) shows Shirin (left) and Khosrow (right) with polo sticks and ball. From p.113 of MS Browne 1434, the Khamsa of Nizami (Persian, 1540). This story comes from the second part of the Khamsa, ‘Khosrow and Shirin’.