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Book SynopsisThis volume contains album prefaces in the original Persian version with English translation, miscellaneous documents relating to calligraphers and painters, and specimens of travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface ALBUMS * Shah Tahmasp Album, İÜK F.1422, Preface by Shahqulï Khalifa Muhrdar * Bahram Mirza Album, TSM H.2154, Preface by Dost-Muhammad * Amir Husayn Beg Album, TSM H.2151, Preface by Mâlik Daylami * Preface to an Album by Khwaja Abdullah Marwarid, TSM H.2156 * Amir Ghayb Beg Album, TSM H.2161, Preface by Mir Sayyid-Ahmad An Ottoman Album, ÖNB Cod. Mixt. 313, Preface by Cenderecizade Mehmed * Shah Isma'il II Album, TSM H.2138, Preface by Shamsuddin Muhammad Wasfi * Preface to a Safavid Album, TSM H.2157, Copied by Muhammad-Muhsin * Wali-Muhammad Khan Album, TSM H.2137, Preface Copied by Muhammad-Salih Preface to a Mughal Album, MMA 55.121.10, Composed by Mir Ali ai-Husayni * An Album Made by Kamaluddin Bihzad, Preface by Khwandamir SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Arzadasht, H.2153, fol. 98a Miscellaneous Documents Ghiyathuddin Naqqash, Report to Mirza Baysunghur on the Timurid Legation to the Ming Court at Peking Kamaluddin Abdui-Razzaq Samarqandi, Mission to Calicut and Vijayanagar Anonymous Synoptic Account of the Timurid House, TSM B.411, fol. 159a Works Cited Index