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Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising calligraphy and illumination, including Qur'an leaves from the 9th to the 14th century, Persian and Mughal illumination ; Persian miniatures from the 13th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the Manafi al-Hayawan, c. 1300 ; two lynxes with antelopes, Tabriz, c. 1520-30 ; a physician of Shah Abbas I by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1674 ; a portrait of Matla' Al- Mu'azzam, Qajar, dated 1835 ; miniatures attributed to Bihzad, Muhammad Taqi, Muhammad 'Ali, Mu'in, Muhammad Baqir ; Turkish miniatures, including a leaf from the Maktal-i-Al-i Resul by Lami' I Celebi, late sixteenth century ; and a portrait of a late sixteenth century sultan ; Indian miniatures from the 16th century to the 19th century, including a page from the Hamza-nama, Mughal c. 1570 ; two leaves from the Baburnama, Mughal c. 1590 ; a lion in a thicket, Mughal c. 1620-30 ; a portrait of a raja, Kulu c. 1720 ; and Deccani, Central Indian and Rajasthani miniatures ; Persian and Arabic manuscripts including a Qur'an dated 1689, presented to Muhammad Shah Qajar ; an illustrated Shahnama, Qazwin, dated 1583 ; the Zafar Nama, Shiraz, dated 1436 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 12th to the 18th century including the Four Gospels, dated 1200 ; and a menologium dated 1603-4 |