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MS M.386.4v

A calligraphy by ʻAlī al-Ḥusainī.

first half of the 16th century.
Afghanistan
378 x 241 mm
MS M.386.4v

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

Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, or in Bukhara, in the first half of the 16th century.
Text: quatrain celebrating the Persian new year (Nauroz).
Decoration: illuminated borders.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Ḥusainī (Mīr ʻAlī al-Ḥusain