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Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru, c. 1425. These two pages are from a manuscript that evidently was written and illustrated for the library in 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.