| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Indian miniatures and Company school paintings from the 18th to the 19th century, including natural history illustrations and a scroll painting of the murals of the Daria Daulat Palace at Seringapatam ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including a Shiraz miniature of c.1580 depicting a scene at the Ka'ba and three Turkish portraits of c.1620 ; Qajar and Ottoman oil paintings, including a portrait of Prince Muhammad Ali Mirza Qajar and a Qajar painting of two court dancers ; a fine selection of Qajar lacquer, including 18th century pen-boxes signed by Mirza Baba and Sadiq ; calligraphy and firmans, including an album page signed by Qarahisari and a gold-decorated Mughal firman ; Qur'ans and Qur'an leaves from the 9th to the 19th century, including a selection of Mamluk Qur'ans, three finely illuminated Safavid Qur'ans, a large illuminated Indian Qur'an, a rare Chinese Qur'an section, and a small Qajar Qur'an written on gazelle skin ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts, including a rare maghribi manuscript commissioned by the Almoravid Sultan Ali Ibn Yusuf Ibn Tashufin, three fine illustrated Persian manuscripts, one with miniatures of the school of Bihzad, and a rare Indian manuscript of a mathnavi love poem dated 1750, written and illustrated by the author Muhammad Azima |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1993 |
| Physical desc. |
99 pages ; illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm. |
| Note |
28/04/1993 |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 18, lot 26 (comparison with T 439, f. 30b); p. 58, lot 100 (comparison with a Chinese Qur'an in James, Qur'ans and bindings from the Chester Beatty Library [London: World of Islam Festival Trust, 1980], p.108, no. 87); p. 95, lot 179 (comparison with Per 163, f. 54). |
| Date & place of sale |
Wednesday 28 April 1993, London |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- 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 |
| Islamic calligraphy -- Catalogs |
| Lacquer and lacquering -- Iran -- Catalogs |
