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Thursday, 8 November 2007

National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi, September 2007

Top, part of an imperial Ottoman firman (I think that;s the right word), in Arabic.

Bottom, another from the Persian book.

This concludes my series on these beautiful ancient hand-written and -illustrated works of art in many different languages.


Wednesday, 7 November 2007

National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi, September 2007

Two from a marvellous Persian book with painted miniatures.