Sa'di's "Gulistan" from the Marto collection was also, according to the colophon, copied under the direction of the kitabdar Sultan-Mirak Munshi by the calligrapher Miro Ali al-Katib in 950/1543. It is also indicated that this was during the reign of Muzaffar ad-Din Abd al-Aziz Bahadur, the Khan of Bukhara from 1540 to 1550. The book contains five miniatures. None of them are signed, except for the one which indicates the name of the gilder (muzakhib) Masikhá. However, Indian librarians added the attribution of the miniature to the famous artist Abd-Allah Hakani. The manuscript was in the court library of the Mughal emperors and has notes from Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Unfortunately, many stamps and markings from Indian librarians and scholars have been erased. Later, the manuscript ended up in Iran. Information about the merchant who sold it to Marto is missing.
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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