| Corporate Author |
Christie, Manson & Woods |
| Title |
Islamic art and Indian miniatures : and rugs and carpets |
| Publisher |
London : Christie's, 1994 |
| Physical desc. |
215 pages (1 folded) ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm. |
| Note |
18/10/1994; 20/10/1994. |
| Property of Lord Elphinstone, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, the Newberry Library, Chicago, the Dr. Arthur M. Sacker collections, Lady Soames, D.B.E., the estate of Frank A. Vanderlip, Jnr., and from various sources. |
| References to CB manuscripts: p. 10, lot 8 ('Colophon from a Khamseh' manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library, In 20 [folio now in the CB: In 20.1994:3]); p. 28, lot 38 (small Qur'an section; another portion of the same Qur'an in the CB [Is 1414]); p. 44, lot 69 (section from a Chinese Qur'an; two folios from a similar Qur'an in the CB [Is 1588]); p. 46, lot 72 (works by scribe Mir Husain al-Katib al-Khaqani al-Husaini: 'copies of Jami's Mathnawi and his Tuhfat al-Ahrar...in the Chester Beatty Library'). |
| Lots 6-33: 'The property of a gentleman, from a collection formed in France in the 1940s'. |
| Lot 34: folio from the Late Shah Jahan album, with a description of its provenance. |
| Annotated. |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday 18 and Thursday 20 October 1994, London. |
| Person as subject |
Elphinstone, James Alexander -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Sackler, Arthur M. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Soames, Mary -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Vanderlip, Frank Arthur -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute -- Museum of Art -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Newberry Library -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 20 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1414 |
| Islamic art -- Catalogs |
| Art, Indic -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Indic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Rugs, Oriental -- Catalogs |
| Islamic decorative arts -- Catalogs |
| Decorative arts -- India -- Catalogs |
| Islamic art objects -- Catalogs |
| Islamic bookbinding -- Catalogs |
| Islamic metal-work -- Catalogs |
| Islamic pottery -- Catalogs |
