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Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman manuscripts from the 9th to 20th century, including a Qur'an fragment on vellum, written in Kufic script, Arabic, 9th century ; an illuminated Qur'an section written in early naskhi script, probably North Africa, 12th century ; a large illuminated Qur'an, Mamluk, probably Egypt, c. 1350 ; al-Bukhari's Sahih, with two full pages of illumination, Mamluk, late 13th century ; Kitab Jami' al-Tasanif Rashidi (a survey and index of Rashid al-Din's works), written in the scriptorium at Rashidiya, Tabriz, dated 1307, 1315 and 1316 ; Sa'di's Kulliyat with one double page of illumination and 13 double pages with illuminated borders, Sultanate, dated 1388 ; al-Jurjani's Dhakhirat-i Khwarazmshahi (a treatise on medicine), Persia, c. 1300 ; Tibb al-Adwiyah (a collection of medical extracts and prescriptions), Herat, dated 1398 |