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拍品专文
The identity of this Mir 'Ali is not known. Mir 'Ali Tabrizi, the so-called inventor of nasta'liq was an early Timurid scribe and Mir 'Ali Heravi died in AH 951 (1544-5 AD). There is however, a contemporary of Mir 'Ali Heravi who copied the Bustan of Sa'di for 'Abdullah Khan Uzbek the ruler of Bukhara in AH 970 (1562-3 AD) and signed as 'al-sultani' (royal scribe) and may be the scribe of this album (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. II, Teheran, 1346 sh., p. 516). A copy of Silsilat al-Dhahab of Jami also dated AH 970 (1562-3 AD) sold at Sotheby's April 1978, lot 163 may also be by the same scribe.
There are a few Royal Library notes and two descriptions of the manuscript, one identifying the scribe as Mir 'Ali Katib al-Sultani (The Royal Scribe) and declaring that the manuscript entered the Royal library in AH 1107 (1695-6 AD). The manuscript had however left the Royal library by AH 1156 (1743-4 AD) when it is registered as belonging to a certain Muhammad Talib. It entered the library of Najm al-Hukama in AH 1313 (1895-6 AD) and contains his seal dated AH 1311 (1893-4 AD) and was transferred from Najm al-Hukama's heirs to Lutf'ali ibn Muhammad Kazim al-Tabrizi in AH 1322 (1904-05 AD) (neither identified).
There are a few Royal Library notes and two descriptions of the manuscript, one identifying the scribe as Mir 'Ali Katib al-Sultani (The Royal Scribe) and declaring that the manuscript entered the Royal library in AH 1107 (1695-6 AD). The manuscript had however left the Royal library by AH 1156 (1743-4 AD) when it is registered as belonging to a certain Muhammad Talib. It entered the library of Najm al-Hukama in AH 1313 (1895-6 AD) and contains his seal dated AH 1311 (1893-4 AD) and was transferred from Najm al-Hukama's heirs to Lutf'ali ibn Muhammad Kazim al-Tabrizi in AH 1322 (1904-05 AD) (neither identified).