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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Company school and Kalighat watercolours, including an album by Manu Lal, Calcutta, c. 1798 ; an album of portraits of tribesman, Punjab Plains, c. 1848 ; Mughal, Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures, including Krishna revered by the gopis, Murshidabad, c. 1780 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata Purana, Bilaspur, c. 1700, Ragamala illustrations, Kangra, c. 1780-90 ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a double-page frontispiece attributed to Shaykhzadeh, Tabriz, c. 1520 ; a miniature of Iskandar comforting the dying Dara, signed by Mu'in Musavvir, Isfahan, c. 1648-49 ; four early Ottoman bindings formerly in the collection of F.R. Martin, Turkey, second half of fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an fragment written in muhaqqaq script in alternating blue and gold, Mamluk or Ottoman, fifteenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an section, probably Tabriz, dated 1483 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with twenty-six miniatures in the commercial Turkman style, dated 1486-88 |
