Illuminated Manuscript, Collection of poems (masnavi), The husband of a greedy woman weighs the cat that supposedly ate all the meat that he bought for his guests, This is an illustrated and illuminated copy of the collection of poems, known as Mas̱navī-i maʿnavī, of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672 AH / 1273 CE). According to the colophon, the text, written in black nastaʿlīq script, was completed in India in 1073 AH / 1663 CE

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