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Catalogue of highly important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Kevorkian Foundation comprising Persian miniatures ; comprising Persian miniatures, including leaves from manuscripts of the Manafi al-Hayawan [c. 1300], the Kalilah wa Dimnah [c. 1333] ; the Shahnameh [c. 1340 and c. 1480], the Zafar Nama [c. 1436] and Sa'di's Kulliyat [c. 1580] ; miniatures attributed to Muhammad Mu'min [c. 1590], Muhammad Muhsin [c. 1650], Mu'in, 1696, 'Ali Quli Jabbadar, c. 1690 and Muhammad Hadi [c. 1775] ; two 14th century Mamluk designs for automata ; Indian miniatures, including examples attributed to Mir Sayyid 'Ali [c. 1550], Bihzad ibn 'Abd al-Samad, Basawan, [c. 1595], Abdul Qadir and Ibrahim Khan Naqash [c. 1650], and other Mughal, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures of the 16th to the 19th century ; also leaves from 16th century manuscripts of the Baburnama and the Harivamsa ; Mamluk, Persian and Turkish bookbindings ; a Qur'an by the scribe Yahyar ibn Mansur ibn Harrah, and a fine illuminated Qur'an of the 14th century ; fine illuminated manuscripts of the Shahnameh, dated 1444, 1459, 1539, and c. 1550 ; and manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries illuminated in the styles of Shiraz, Qazwin, Khurasan and Isfahan ; also the 'Bellini Album' |