Unwan from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1630–40; verso: ca. 1540

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Unwan from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1630–40; verso: ca. 1540, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 1/4 in. ( cm), Codices, A manuscript often opened with an 'unwan, a sumptuous double-page composition framing columns of text. To begin this imperial album, text from a treatise on calligraphy by Mir 'Ali, the celebrated penman of the early sixteenth-century Timurid court of Herat, was pasted onto a folio and decorated with several borders of lavish illumination

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