Two poetical works: Yusuf and Zulaykha and Mihr and Mushtari, Qara Khan, king of Samarqand, defeated by Mihr, This illuminated and illustrated Safavid manuscript, executed in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, contains two poetical works: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE) and Mihr va Mushtarī by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ‘Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. 784 AH / 1382 CE). The two texts can be read side by side on the same page, either written horizontally or obliquely. There are four paintings illustrating the text

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