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Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising calligraphy from the 9th to the 20th century, including vellum Qur'an leaves, Arabic, ninth/tenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century, including a miniature of a teacher and his two pupils, style of Mu'in, Isfahan, second quarter of the seventeenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopian and Indian manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including Bani Musa's Kitab al-Hiyal, illustrated with one hundred diagrams, Syria or Egypt, late fifteenth century ; Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with forty-one miniatures, Deccan dated 1803 ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and a mirror-case, Qajar, nineteenth century ; Indian miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a white pony by Sheikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya, Calcutta, c. 1835-40 ; a prince leading a tiger-hunt across a hillside, Jaipur, c. 1820 ; a princess standing with a young buck on a terrace, Guler, c. 1790 |
