He was from Mashhad and served Mir Alisher Navoi and Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara in Herat. His treatise about calligraphy is very famous. It is very likely that this manuscript, written by him in Khurasan, was later completed in Bukhara in the middle of the 16th century with two paintings and the distichs written on a golden background that accompany them, because they are not in the hand of the famous calligrapher. This is one of the many examples of manuscripts brought to Bukhara where they received decorated margins and illustration in the typical Bukhara style. Later the manuscript was in Ottoman collections. There could be also slight restorations dating from that time.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Illustrated manuscripts from Mawarannahr in the collections of France" (Volume XXIX) in the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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