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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures and manuscripts : comprising Mughal miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a portrait of an elderly mullah, Mughal, second half of seventeenth century ; Deccani, central Indian and Rajasthani miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a prince surrounded by beautiful maidens, Datia, mid-eighteenth century ; a ragamala illustration, Mewar, c. 1690 ; Pahari miniatures from the 18th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Sat Sai of Bihari, Garhwal, c. 1810 ; Persian and Arabic calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to the 19th century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures and drawings, including a miniature after Titian, Isfahan, c. 1675, and a portrait of Hajji Mirza Aqasi, signed by Muhammad Hasan Afshar, Qajar, dated 1845 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indian, Burmese, Tibetan and Ethiopic manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an, Turkey, c. 1470 ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror-cases including a pen box signed by Mustafa, Qajar, dated 1882. |