| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : including a series of Calcutta natural history drawings ; Company school paintings ; Mughal miniatures of the 16th to 19th century, including two leaves from the Tuti nama, c. 1570-80 ; a leaf from the Victoria and Albert Museum Akbarnama, c. 1595-1600 ; a fine miniature of King Solomon and his court, c. 1600 ; four leaves from the Baburnama, c. 1590; two miniatures from the Chester Beatty Akbarnama, c. 1600-10 ; a leaf from a Shahnama, c. 1620 ; three leaves from a Shahnama, c. 1610 ; Deccani, Rajasthani, and Pahari miniatures, including a portrait of a Bijapur raja, 18th century ; an illustration to the Bhagavata Purana, c. 1540-60 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures of the 15th to 19th century, including eleven miniatures from a Shahnama written for Sultan Mirza Ali of Gilan, c. 1480-90 ; three miniatures from the Majma al-Tavaraikh, c. 1425 ; a leaf from the Khawaran nama, dated 1476-7 ; two leaves from a Shahnama, c. 1576-77 ; Persian painted lacquer and calligraphy ; Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Burmese, and Sanskrit manuscripts including Assar's Mihr u mushtari, Shiraz 1506-7 ; Sa'di's Gulistan, Herat c. 1460-70 ; Firdausi's Shahnama, Herat 1497-8 ; Qur'an manuscripts of the 16th to 19th century ; the Four Gospels in Armenian, Tokat, 1679-80 |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1971 |
| Physical desc. |
102 pages, 35 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (3 color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
13/07/1971 |
| Including property of Mrs. S. Richardson and Mrs. S.M. Norman, E. Kofler-Truniger, Mrs. L.C.M.G. Brunet, the late A.K. Coomaraswamy, Viscount S.S. Hermelin, the late Sir A. Chester Beatty, Boies Penrose, and others. |
| Property of the late A. Chester Beatty: page 88, lots 394 (portrait of Sultan Orkhan of Turkey [1327-1359]) and 395 (painted ivory box of acorn form). |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 15, lots 72 & 73 (Tutinama [In 21]); p. 16, lot 74 (Akbarnama [In 03]); p. 28, lot 126 (Baburnama [In 06]); p. 29, lot 127 (Akbarnama [In 03]); p. 30, lot 128; p. 32, lot 132 (Baburnama [In 06]); p. 76, lot 348 ([Per 293], Khavar nama); p. 78, lot 354 (Shahnama 'probably produced for Shah Isma'il II'); p. 80, lot 357 (with illustration) (Youth kneeling before a prophet in a landscape, 'probably by the artist Muhammad 'Ali, Isfahan, c. 1660). |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed notice that lots 126 to 131 and 354 to 356 were postponed. |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday 13 July 1971, London |
| Person as subject |
Beatty, Alfred Chester -- Sir -- 1875-1968 -- Catalogs |
| Richardson, S. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Norman, S.M. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Kofler-Truniger, Ernst -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Brunet, L.C.M.G. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish -- 1877-1947 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Penrose, Boies -- 1902-1976 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 06 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 21 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 293 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
