Mevlevi Sufi dervishes dancing the samā` ritual, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492).
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (verso), from Breaths of intimacy from presences of sanctity (Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaẓarāt al-quds), by `Abd al-Raḥmān Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (1414-1492), biographies of c. 600 great sufis, originally composed in 1478, colophon (in main codex T 474, fol. 350r) unsigned, Baghdad, Iraq, dated Shawwal 1003H, June 1595.