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Begins :
خداوندا دری از غیب بکشائی
بنمای لاريب شاهد جمال
Ends :
خطای من مبين ودرعطاکش عطا کن پرده برزوی خطا پوش
Colophon :
الوهاب تحریرا تمت الكتاب بعون الملک
سنة ست وثمانين في شهر رمضان المبارک تسعهای
قاقشالی درتارینه به قیمت یکهزار و نهصد و چهل و پنجم روبيه بمعرفت مرزا فرخ بیگ
والا خرید داخل كتب خانه نموده شد بیست و پنجم مكرم الحرام سه۲۵ جلوس
Two illustrations of the Khorasan school; the manuscript belonged to the Emperor Akbar's library.
The colophon states that in the 25th regnal year of Akbar, this manuscript was purchased through Farrukh Beg Qaqshal, the famous painter, for Rs. 1945. The date of copying is given as A.H. 986 (A.D. 1578) and it is presumed that the painter was Farrukh Beg Qaqshal himself who painted this manuscript before coming to the court of Akbar in 1578.
Lent by the Sayeedia Library Association, Hyderabad.
GULISTĀN (A didactic composition)
Foll. 137; size 27.5 x 16.5 cm; paper; Nast‘aliq script; 12 lines to a page; Persian; dated A.H. 986 (A.D. 1578). Author: Sádi Shirāzi (died about 1291 A.D.); scribe: Hasan ash-Sharif Ibn Husain ash-Sharif Al-Husaini al Mashhadi.
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