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Catalogue of Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books : comprising Mughal and Deccani miniatures form the 17th to 19th century, including Prince Sulaiman Shikoh listening to an ascetic attributed to Chitarman, Mughal, c. 1660 ; a noblewoman playing chaupur, Lucknow, c. 1790 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th century, including three illustrations to the Bhagavata purana, Hindur, c. 1850-60 ; a portrait of a nobleman, Baha (Jammu), c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century ; calligraphy from the 15th to the 19th century, including two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami, Herat, late fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 19th century, including a miniature Qur'an, Turkey, dated 1412 ; an illuminated Qur'an section, Mamluk, Egypt, c. 1400 ; a Persian manuscript partly written in eastern kufic, Persia, dated 1203 |