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Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a page from an old book with Arabic script. The page is yellowed and aged, with darker edges. A thin blue border surrounds the text. The text is written in black ink, with some words or phrases highlighted in red ink. The text fills the page, arranged in lines that run from top to bottom. The lines are not perfectly straight, and the text varies slightly in size and spacing. The background of the image is white.

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