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![Lov 67—continued. great painter. On leaf 64, there is a miniature of a type which is not usually to be met with in manuscripts, but rather has its place in collections of drawings by great masters (mouraggah), which amateurs were so fond of. But this miniature is an integral part of the manuscript, as is shewn by the text on the back of it. It represents a lion lying down, it is very likely by Bihzad’s hand (cf. F. R. Martin, op. cit. pl. 86). The Bibliotheque Nationale possesses two lions of the same series (Arabian 6075), but quite inferior in quality (¢c/. also Burlington Magazine, Nov. 1912). It must be noted as regards the text, that the 73 quatrains of the RuBAYAT by Omar Khayyam are of special interest, since, as is known, there are only a few old texts of Omar Khayyam, and the very late editions are full of additions. Mirza Mohamed copied the 73 quatrains contained in this volume in order to make a critical study of them. [See ILLUSTRATIONS]. 68 ‘TOHFET-EL-EHRAR of Djami, imitating MAKHZEN EL ASSAR of Nizami, 962 A.H. (beginning from the 26 November, 1554); School of the Sultan Mahomed ; with 64 decorated pages, 2 pages of sarlows and 3 miniatures, binding of contemporary gilt gauffred leather 250 mm. by 190 mm. Copied by Mir Hossein el Hoseini, Imperial copyist “who is considered to be equal to Mir Ali” * *.* This manuscript bears on the pages of its cover many seals and signatures of the book-keepers of Shah-Djehan and Shah Alam, with the names of Arif, Ztimed Khan, Abdar-Rachid, Sayd Aly, with the date of the year of the hegire during which time it was in the libraries of the Mogol Emperors, 1045, 1063, 1069 A.H. It may be compared with a famous manuscript formerly in the Marteau collection, now in the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris. The miniatures are by the same painter, one of the most remark- able of his time. The British Museum hasa manuscript probably by the same hand, the famous Nizami, which F. R. Martin calls “the finest XVIth century Persian manuscript in the British Museum, executed for the Shah at Tabriz, 946-949 A.H. (1539-43 A.D.)” (op. cit. p. 64). [See ILLUSTRATION ]. 69 ComprLeTe WorkKS of Fozouli of Bagdad, the Turkish poet, containing : 1. His Divan, in Turkish verses; 2. Bang-u-Bade’s book (wine and haschich), in Turkish verses ; 3. Letter addressed by Fozouli to Nichandji Pacha, in prose and Turkish verses; 4. Rind u Zahid’s * Cf. Huart, op. cit. p. 239.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31667417_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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