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A calligraphy by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaini.
Khanate of Bukhara.
between 1528 and 1543.
378 x241 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
MS M.386.14v
Description:
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