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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a miniature depicting the Prophet Muhammad riding a camel outside the walls of the Ka'ba, Mughal, c.1600 ; a portrait of a nobleman out riding a dapple-grey stallion, Deccan, early eighteenth century ; a portrait of Jahangir by Muhammad Husain, Deccan, c.1680 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a portrait of Mian Mukan Dev of Jasrota, Basohli, c.1760-1770 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including two miniatures from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, India, Sultanate, mid-fifteenth century ; two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c.1570 ; calligraphy from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustrated firman of Sultan Selim II, Constantinople, dated 1566 ; two large calligraphic panels, signed by Umaral al-Wasif Sivasi, Constantinople, dated 1845 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 19th century, including two vellum Qur'an leaves written in kufic script in gold, the great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; Qur'ans from the 12th to the 19th century, including a small Qur'an section, Seljuk, Anatolia, twelfth century ; an illustrated Qur'an section (Juz XI), Sultanate, fifteenth century ; an illustrated Qur'an on gold-sprinkled paper, India, eighteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 20th century, including Ibn Sina's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), Book III, Juz I, North Africa, thirteenth century ; Ubaidallah bin Mas'ud Sharh Wiqayat al-Riwayah fi Masa'il al-Hidayah, contemporary brown morocco binding, Ottoman, third quarter of fifteenth-century ; Hatifi's Timurnama with three full-page miniatures, Ottoman, dated 1499 ; Jami's Yusuf va Zulaykha with eight miniatures, Bukhara, mid-sixteenth century, and later Nizami's Khamsa with four double-page miniatures in the style of Mirza Ali, Mashhad, dated 1576-77 ; a collection of Arabic manuscripts on medicine from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Majusi's Kamil al-Sina'ah al-Tibiyyah, Persia dated 1434 and 1437 ; Abu Ali Yahya Ibn'Issa bin Jazalah's Taqwim al-Abdan, Ottoman, dated 1585 |
