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A calligraphy by Maḥmūd ibn Isḥāq al-Shihābī.
between 1550 and 1585.
378 x 241 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
MS M.386.3v
Description:
Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, the second half of the 16th century.
Text: four lines of a mas̤navī by Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadi (fl. 1453-1514).
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Maḥmūd ibn Isḥāq al-Shihābī (fl. 1521-1585).