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Text Page, Persian Prose (recto) from a Manuscript of the Majma al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) by Hafiz-i Abru: , c. 1425. These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library (at Herat) of the Timurid king Shah Rukh, the son of Timur (Tamerlane). The Majma al-Tawarikh traced the history of the world, beginning with the prophets of the Old Testament until the reign of Shah Rukh.