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Calligraphy by Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi, illumination by Zain al-'Abidin al-Tabrizi. Ink, opaque watercolour, silver and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSultan Ali Mashhadi (died 1520) was the foremost master of nasta'liq at the Timurid court of Herat. A native of Mashhad, he spent many years in Herat under the princes Abu Sa'id and Sultan Husayn Mirza, knew the poet Jami and the statesman Ali-Shir Nava'i, and left dated calligraphy from 1461 to 1515. Manuscripts and album pages in his hand, among them a 1487 copy of Attar's Language of the Birds, are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in solid wood with low-reflection glazing, or unframed. 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