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Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century, including seventeen bird drawings from the collection of Lord Valentia, Company school, Calcutta, c.1803 ; a miniature depicting an ascetic revered by a female devotee, Mughal, mid-seventeenth century ; an illustration to the Mahabharata with Vishnu disguised as Mohini decapitating Rahu with a discus, Guler, 1745 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including an album containing seventy watercolour drawings of Turkish costumes, Ottoman, eighteenth century ; a painting depicting a performance of the Mevlevi ritual at Galata on the 24th July 1888, Ottoman, c.1888 ; calligraphy, illumination and firmans from the 13th to the 19th century, including an illuminated tughra of Sultan Selim II, Constantinople, c.1567 ; an illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Ottoman, c.1560 ; waqfiyyah of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha with tughra of Sultan Selim II in gold, Ottoman, c.1571-1573 ; Qur'ans and Qur'an leaves from the 9th century to the 19th century, including a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, with an illuminated sura heading, the Great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; a Qur'an section written in gold, Seljuk, thirteenth century ; a richly illuminated Qur'an written in alternating blue and gold, Safavid, c.1550 ; a Qur'an attributed to Ahmed Qarahisari, Ottoman, mid-sixteenth century ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with twenty-five miniatures, Qazwin, c.1560-1565 ; a manuscript of Kashifi's Anwar Suhaili, illustrated with one hundred and nine miniatures, Multan, India, dated 1791 |
