Mir Ali Tabrizi

Mir Ali Tabrizi was a calligrapher in the academy of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir; Norah Titley says that under Sultan Ahmad's patronage he perfected the elegant, flowing nasta'liq script, in which he wrote Khvaju Kirmani's poems in the manuscript of 1396. ¹ For Titley the script then became the predominant one in illustrated Persian manuscripts, being the perfect complement to miniatures. ¹

Mir Ali also copied Sultan Ahmad's Divan, now in the Freer Gallery, thought to be later than the Khvaju Kirmani manuscript and perhaps from the turn of the fifteenth century before Timur's army drove Sultan Ahmad from Baghdad; eight of its folios have unique border paintings stretching across the page. ²