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Vladimir Minorsky, trans., Calligraphers and Painters: A Treatise by Qādī Ahmad, Son of Mir-Munshī, circa A.H. 1015/A.D. 1606, Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers 3, no. 2 (1959).

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