Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
Title |
Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising bindings from the 15th to 19th century, including a fourteenth century Mamluk brown morocco binding decorated with geometric design with dots filled in gold and blind ; Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts from the 9th to 19th century, including a Qur'an section on vellum, written in kufic script, Arabic, 9th century ; a large Mamluk Qur'an written for Qa'it Bay, Egypt dated 1488 ; Nizami's Khamsa with 5 double pages of illumination, Persian dated 1533 ; Attar's Asrarnama and 5 other works with one double page of illumination and six illuminated headpieces, India dated 1569 ; Tusi's Mashkalat al-Isharat, Baghdad dated 1292-93 ; Tusi's Tahrir al-Majisti (Persian translation of Ptolemy's Almagest) with numerous tables and diagrams, Persia dated 1487 |
Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1982 |
Physical desc. |
108 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Note |
26/04/1982 |
Property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund |
At head of cover title: 'Sotheby's spring Islamic sales'. |
Includes a loosely inserted list of price estimates and a final price list. |
Date & place of sale |
Monday, 26th April, 1982, London |
Corporate name |
Hagop Kevorkian Fund -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
Islamic bookbinding -- Catalogs |
Islamic calligraphy -- Catalogs |
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Catalogs |