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Provenance
Maggs Bros., London, Oriental Miniatures and Illumination, Bulletin 15, August 1969, no. 151.
Private UK collection.
The nasta'liq inscription in the upper border reads Pharavin, presumably an approximation of bhairava. The inscription verso reads Bharvin Ragini bozurg [?] Bharvan. The word bozurg in Persian has many meanings including 'great', 'elder', or 'old'. In addition there is the number 3 written twice, once in digits and once in both letters and digits.