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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures and manuscripts : comprising two Company school albums ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of the Emperor Aurangzeb, Mughal, c. 1660 ; a ragamala illustration by Faqirullah, Mughal, c. 1750-60 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including ragamala illustrations, Jaipur c.1760 ; a portrait of a prince, Guler, c.1790 ; Indian drawings from the Pan Asian collection including a buffalo fight attributed to Farrukh Chela, Mughal, late sixteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 16th to 17th century, including an album of coloured drawings of costumes, landscapes, including several fold-out panoramic townscapes, Ottoman, 18th century ; Ottoman firmans from the 16th to 19th century, including an illuminated firman of Murad III, Constantinople, dated 1575 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic, Armenian and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 15th to 20th century, including a psalter, Ethiopic manuscript on vellum illustrated with thirty-seven miniatures, Ethiopia, 15th century ; Nizami's selected poems illustrated with thirty-three small miniatures, Transoxiana, c.1500 |