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Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including four watercolours of shawl manufacture painted by a Sikh artist for the Paris Universal exhibition of 1867, Amritsar or Lahore, c. 1866 ; a miniature depicting Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapur riding an elephant in a procession, Deccan, Bijapur, c. 1610-20 ; a portrait of Nawab Shuja ud-Daula of Oudh, signed by Mihr Chand, Lucknow or Faizabad, c. 1780 ; three illustrations from the Shangri Ramayana, Kulu, c. 1700-10 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illuminated prayer book in Arabic, copied by Ahmed Qarahisari, Ottoman, dated 1540-1 ; Qur'ans and Qur'an leaves from the 9th to the 19th century, including a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, the Great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; a large Qur'an leaf and a fragment of a Qur'an leaf with an illuminated heading, both written in muhaqqaq, attributed to Baysunghur bin Shah Rukh bin Timur, c. 1420-30 ; Arabic, Persian and South-East Asian manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with one double-page frontispiece and eighty-one miniatures, North-West India, probably Sind, late sixteenth century ; a manuscript of Jami's Divan, illustrated with nineteen miniatures, Shiraz, 1555 or 1556 |
