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Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to the 19th century, including one specimen by Sultan Muhammad Nur, probably Tabriz, first quarter of sixteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including one leaf from the 'Small Shahnama' manuscript, c. 1340, one leaf from the 'Demotte' Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1330-1350 ; a maiden stands facing right, Isfahan, c. 1630-40 ; a young prince picnicking, attributed to Muhammad Qasim, Isfahan, mid-seventeenth century, and an amorous couple, by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1089/1678 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including three leaves from an album made for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, early seventeenth century ; an imaginary assembly of Mughal emperors by Hashim, Mughal, dated 1064/1653 ; nineteen miniatures from the Murray album, including a portrait of Hakim al-Mulk, by Murad, Mughal, c. 1630-40 ; Deccani and Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century ; Arabic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 14th to the 17th century, including al-Jazari's Book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices, Egypt or Syria, dated 715/1315 ; Khwaju Kirmani's Khamsa, Turkman, c. 1460-70 ; Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c. 1510-20 ; Nizami's Khamsa, Turkey, dated 935/1529 ; Sa'di's Bustan with two miniatures attributed to Shaykhzada, Herat or Tabriz, c. 1525, Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with sixty-two miniatures, Khurusan, dated 101/1602 ; and Washi's Farhad u Shirin, with four miniatures attributed to Muhammad Qasim, Isfahan, dated 1046/1636 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 16th to the 17th century, including the Four Gospels copied and illuminated by Yovanes of Khizan, Khizan, dated 1620/21 |