Folio from a Rawdat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand (d. 1498); verso: illuminated text; recto: the combat between Muslims and infidels and the martyrdom of Marv-ibn- al-Humam
Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Rawdat al-safa fi sirat al-anbiya' wa-al -muluk wa-al-khulafa (Garden of purity on the lives of the prophets, kings, and caliphs) by Muhammad b. Khwandshah (known as Mirkhwand); Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, the Combat between Muslims and infidels and the martyrdom of Marv-ibn- al-Humam, one column, twenty-five lines; verso: illuminated text, nineteen lines; one of a group of twenty folios.
Borders have been removed and only the text portion of the folio remains.
