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Fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books : Mughal miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a blue-throated barbet by Mansur, Mughal, c. 1610-20 ; Shah Abbas receiving the Mughal ambassador Khan 'Alam, Mughal, late seventeenth century ; Ahmad Shah on horseback, Mughal, c. 1730-40 ; the durbar of Akbar II, attended by Sir David Ochterlony, Delhi, c. 1860 ; Deccani, Rajasthani and Nepalese miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of Maharana Jagat Singh, Mewar, mid-eighteenth century ; two illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, Nepal, c. 1775 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including an illustration to the Rasamanjari, Basohli, c. 1660-70 ; Devi revered by a prince, by the artist Uttam, Nurpur, c. 1760 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 8th to the 20th century, including two vellum Qur'an leaves in ma'il script, Arabic, eighth/tenth century ; two illuminated leaves from a manuscript of poetry of Jami, Herat, late fifteenth century ; an illuminated Ottoman firman of Sultan Muhammad IV, Constantinople, dated 1652 ; Persian and Ottoman miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including an illustrated leaf from a 'small Shahnama', Persia or India, c. 1340 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopian and Indian manuscripts from the 9th to the 19th century, including a vellum Qur'an section in Kufic script, Arabic, ninth/tenth century ; a Mamluk Qur'an written in gold, Egypt, c. 1320 ; a miniature Qur'an on vellum, Persia or Iraq, eleventh century ; Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with eighty-two miniatures, Persia, provincial, sixteenth century ; a collection of books in or relating to Turkish, Syriac, Arabic, Georgian and numerous other languages, including, the New Testament first edition in Syriac, 1555 ; the Koran, first edition in Arabic, 1694 ; Pedro de Alcala, Arte para ligeramente saber la lengua Aravica, 1505 ; A. Kircher, China monumentis illustrata, 1667 ; F.-M. Maggio, Syntagmaton linguarum orientalium, quae in Georgiae regionibus audiuntur, 1670 ; J.J. Marcel, Lecons de langue Arabe, 1819 ; Turkish 'incunabula' printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika and an extensive collection of books printed by the Propaganda Fide Press in Rome |
