Sadiqi Beg — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Sadiqi Beg Afshar; it gives his birth about 1533 in Tabriz (940 AH) and death in 1610 in Isfahan, his years as a wandering dervish, his service as a Safavid court painter and head of the royal library until his dismissal in 1596, and his works Majma' al-khavass and Qanun as-Suwar.