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them a masterpiece—this one could’ve belonged in any collection of ghazals;

which spoke of love; friendship; spring and happiness。 We looked at the trees

of  springtime  blooming  in  an  array  of  color;  the  cypresses  in  a  garden

reminiscent of Heaven and the elation of the beloveds reclining in that garden

as they drank wine and recited poetry; it was as if we in the moldy; dusty and

icy Treasury could also smell those spring blossoms and the delicately scented

skin  of  the  joyous  revelers。  “Notice  how  the  same  artist  who  rendered  the

forearms of the lovers; their beautiful naked feet; the elegance of their stances

and the lazy delight of the birds fluttering about them with such sincerity; also

made the crude shape of the cypress in the background!” I said; “This is the

work of Lütfi of Bukhara whose ill…temper and belligerence caused him to leave

each  of  his  illustrations  half  finished;  he  fought  with  every  shah  and  khan

claiming that they understood nothing of painting; and he never remained in

one city for long。 This great master went from one shah’s palace to another;

from city to city; quarreling all the way; never able to find a ruler whose book

was  deserving  of  his  talents;  until  he  ended  up  in  the  workshop  of  an

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inconsequential  chieftain  who  ruled  over  nothing  but  bare  mountaintops。

Claiming that ”the khan’s dominions might be small but he knows painting;“

he  spent  the  remaining  twenty…five  years  of  his  life  there。  Whether  he  ever

knew that this inconsequential lord was blind remains; even today; a subject of

conjecture and a source of humor。”

“Do you see this page?” I said well into the night; and this time they both

rushed  to  my  side;  candlesticks  aloft。  “From  the  time  of  Tamerlane’s

grandchildren to the present; this volume has seen ten owners on its way here

from Herat over a span of one hundred fifty years。” Using my magnifying lens;

the  three  of  us  read  the  signatures;  dedications;  historical  information  and

names  of  sultans—who’d  strangled  one  another—filling  every  corner  of  the

colophon  page;  pinched  together;  between  and  on  top  of  each  other:  “This

volume  was  pleted  in  Herat;  with  the  help  of  God;  by  the  hand  of

Calligrapher  Sultan  Veli;  son  of  Muzaffer  of  Herat;  in  the  year  of  the  Hegira

849 for Ismet…üd Dünya; the wife of Muhammad Juki the victorious brother of

the  Ruler  of  the  World;  Baysungur。”  Later  still;  we  read  that  the  book  had

passed into the possession of the Whitesheep Sultan Halil; thence to his son

Yakup  Bey;  and  thence  to  the  Uzbek  sultans  in  the  North;  each  of  whom

happily amused himself with the book for a time; removing or adding one or

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