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NUR AL-DIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN JAMI
Tuhfat al-ahrar.
c. 1500c. 1550RCIN 1005019
This early sixteenth-century volume of Persian poetry is the type of manuscript that was prized and collected by the Mughals.The illuminated page on the right is the book’s opening page.