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² The technicalities of the art are explained by Huart in *Les Calligraphes et les Miniaturistes de l'Orient Musulman*, Paris, 1908. He gives (p. 256) a list of Indian calligraphists in the eighteenth century, and also mentions Jawāhir Raqam, Aurangzēb's librarian, who died in 1683. The Department of Design, &c., at S. Kensington, possesses specimens of the work of Roshan Raqam, one of the artists named. Col. Hanna's two volumes of *Asiatic Drawings* at Petersfield contain specimens of calligraphy signed by the artists, and ranging from Mīr Ali, A.D. 1535 (=A.H. 942) to Muḥammad Murād, A.D. 1638 (=A.H. 1048). A long catalogue of calligraphists might be compiled from the collections in England, if anybody cared to take the trouble.