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A raid on Homs during the caliphate of Musta'in

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  • Miniature. The Caliph Moustain Billah receiving as prisoners the nobles of the city of Hams. The destruction of the city of Raiy in Persia in the reign of the Calioh Mustansir, in an earthquake. Unknown, Mogul School. Illuminated page from a MS of the Tarikh-i-Alfi (History of the World), a work composed for the Emperor Akbar between the years 1582 and 1595. The page as mounted shows larger on one side than the other. Watercolour, bodycolour including white, pen and ink with gold, on paper, height, 'larger' dimensions, 400 mm, width, 'larger' dimensions, 196 mm, circa 1595. Northern India. Mughal. Bequeathed 1946 by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund.
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