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MS M.386.14v

A calligraphy by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaini.

between 1528 and 1543.
Khanate of Bukhara.
378 x241 mm
MS M.386.14v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.

Ms. written and illuminated in Bukhara between 1528 and ca. 1543.
Text: four hemistichs of an unidentified Persian poem.
Contains a seal stamp which begins "Man raḥīm ...".
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Ḥusainī (Mīr ʻAl