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An aristocratic smithy.
Afghanistan
ca. 1600.
378 x 241 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
MS M.386.11r
Description:
Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Artist: after Ḥabib-Allāh Mashadī.
The surround contains a line of a Persian mas̤navī.
Miniature measures 127 x 95 mm.