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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to the 16th century, including an album of calligraphy, Persia, sixteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the Demotte Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1330-50 ; a man tossed from his horse, style of Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, early seventeenth century ; Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Baburnama, Mughal, c. 1590 ; a leaf from an album executed for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, early seventeenth century ; three illustrations to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1616 ; two female attendants preparing a bed-chamber, Aurangabad, c. 1650-60 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th century, including Qutb ab-Din Mahmud Ibn Mas'ud Al-Shirazi's Durrat at-Taj li Ghurrat ad-Dubaj, written for Iskandar Sultan, Shiraz, c. 1410 ; Sheykhi's Khusrau wa Shirin, illustrated with four miniatures, Ottoman, late fifteenth century ; Rumi's Masnavi, illustrated with twenty-nine miniatures, Herat, dated 1580 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including David 'The invincible's' philosophical works and commentaries on Aristotle, illustrated with one miniature of the author, Etchmiadzin, seventeenth century |
