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Akimushkin O. The Library-Workshop (kitābkhāna) of Bāysunghur-Mīrzā in Herat // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 3, No 1, March 1997. P. 14-24.


It is hardly possible in our days to find a scholarly work dedicated to the history of culture, calligraphy, miniature painting or manuscript production in general in Iran, Afghanistan, and Mawarannahr of the fifteenth century, not mentioning about the remarkable library-workshop founded in Herat by the famous grandson of Tīmūr, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Bāysunghur-mīrzā (21 Dhū'l-hijja 799—7 Jumādā I 837/15 September 1397—20 December 1433)...

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Bāysunghur-Mīrzā
calligraphy
kitābkhāna
Manuscripta Orientalia, selected papers
Persian literature

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