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Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a fragment from a manuscript of Husain Va'iz Kashifi's Anvar-i Suhaili with two miniatures, Mughal, c. 1565-70 ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a young lady reclining against a cushion, signed by Mu'in Musawwir, Isfahan, dated 1678 ; Persian lacquer from the 17th to the 19th century, including a mirror-case, style of Shafi Abbasi, late seventeenth century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including a berat of Sultan Ahmed III, Constantinople, dated 1715 ; a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, Qairawan, tenth century ; Arabic, Persian and South East Asian manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Ahmad al-Tabrizi, Qajar, dated 1860 ; al-Sami fi al-Asami (encyclopaedia of names) in contemporary brown morocco binding, Konya, dated 1419 |
