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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

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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
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