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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Persian lacquer : part two : comprising Persian miniatures from the fourteenth to nineteenth century, including one leaf from an Inju-style Shahnama, Shiraz, c.1341 ; an elderly man lies prostrate upon a couch, Bukhara, third quarter of sixteenth century ; a prince seated upon a gold hexagonal throne, Tabriz/Qazwin, mid-sixteenth century ; a young nobleman, by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1087/1676 ; Nawab Jalal al-Dawla, by Mubarak ibn Muhammad Al-Qajar, Qajar, c.1860 ; Arabic, Burmese, Ethiopic, Indian, Indonesian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including Assar's Mihr u Mushtari, Turkman, dated 822/1419 ; Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with forty-two miniatures, Qazwin dated 973/1565 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with thirty-four miniatures in Isfahan style, Andizhan dated 1003/1595 to 1005/1597 ; Luft Ali Ibn Aka Khan's Atashkadah, Qajar, dated 1216/1801 ; Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including a pen-box in the style of Ali Ashraf, Persia dated 1165/1752 ; a mirror-case by Muhammad Isma'il, Qajar, dated 1274/1857 ; a pen-box by Abd Al-Rahim Isfahani, Qajar, dated 1322/1904 |