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Illuminated Persian manuscript

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
1917
Presented by
Robert Ross through The Art Fund
Illuminated manuscript, appears to be the strife poem of Munazarah-i-Tigh u Qulam by Khwajah Masud, the strife poem of the sword and the pen.

Author worked for Sultan Husain Mirza and wrote poemsabout him. This manuscript is considered unique. Currently unlocated according to 2003 audit. Part of three gifts and four bequests to five museums by Robert Ross through the Art Fund between 1912 and 1919.

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