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Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including a page signed by Ali Al- Katib from a royal album commissioned by Shah Jahan, Mughal, c. 1650 ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a portrait of a pensive youth, signed by Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, early seventeenth century ; a watercolour of a dervish, signed Isma'il Jala'ir, Qajar, c. 1860 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including an illustration to the Baburnama, Mughal, c. 1590 ; two leaves from an album executed for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, early seventeenth century ; a holy man listening to a winged archangel, Mughal, c. 1610-20 ; Deccani and Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a full-length portrait of Abdullah Qutb Shah, Golconda, c. 1650-60 ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century including Tali' (horoscope) of Sultan Az-Zahir Abu Sa'id Qansuh, Mamluk dated 1498 ; an early sixteenth-century Persian manuscript of Nizami illustrated with six Turkish miniatures, c. 1520 ; Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with eighty small miniatures, Shiraz, c. 1550 ; Jami's Subhat al-Abrar illustrated with two miniatures, Bukhara dated 1535 ; Hatifi's Timurnama illustrated with five miniatures, Herat dated 1582 |