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141 Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising calligraphy and illumination, including 9th-10th century Qur'an leaves ; a page of nasta'liq calligraphy by Shah Mahmud Nishapuri, Tabriz, second quarter of sixteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 13th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the Manafi al-Hayawan, c. 1300 ; a lion by Riza-I 'Abbasi, Isfahan, c. 1630 ; a young prince holding a thin cane, by Mu'in, Isfahan dated 1063/1652 ; an elderly man addresses Shah Abbas II, attributed to Muhammad Zaman, Isfahan, c. 1660-70 ; an ibex, by Mirza Baba, Qajar, c. 1800 ; a rose bush, by Muhammad Hadi, Qajar, c. 1800 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including the tragic and violent termination of an illicit romance, 1595 ; ladies of Zenana, c. 1600 ; an illustration to the Razmnama, c. 1616 ; Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including an ascetic outside a cave, Deccan, 1680-1700 ; a prince eating pan and smoking a hookah, Jammu, c. 1780 ; Arabic, Indian and Persian manuscripts, including the Tabbagh Majma al-Tawarikh, Herat, c. 1425 ; a profusely illustrated Shahnama, Turkman dated 890/1485 ; Jami's Subhat al-Abrar, Bukhara, dated 935/1529 ; an illustrated Shahnama, Shiraz, c. 1550-60 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 13th to the 18th century, including an illuminated breviary for King Leo II/III, Cilician Armenia, thirteenth-fourteenth century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1977   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
142 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1978   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
143 Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy and illumination from the 8th to the 19th century, including two Qur'an leaves in ma'il script, Medina, eighth century ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the 'Demotte' Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1330-1350 ; a shepherd, signed by Mu'in Musawwir, Isfahan, dated 1676 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including three leaves from an album executed for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, c. 1600-1610 ; an illustration from an historical manuscript, Mughal, c. 1610 ; four illustrations from the Razmnama, Mughal, c.1616 ; a portrait of Mehdi Quli Khan by Ram Das, Mughal, c. 1660 ; Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including an illustration from a Ragamala series, Mewar, c. 1680 ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including an autograph anthology by Jajarmi, Tabriz, dated 1340 ; Musa's Ghazaliyyat with three miniatures, school of Bihzad, Herat, last quarter of fifteenth century ; an illustrated Turkman Khamsa, Shiraz, dated 1503 ; an illustrated manuscript commissioned by the Mughal Prince Kamran, Bukhara, c. 1550 ; Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with seventy-six miniatures, Khurasan, probably Herat, c. 1570 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 15th to 17th century, including the Four Gospels copied and illuminated by Nikoghayos of Kaffa, Crimea, dated 1658, in a silver binding by Eghia. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1979   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
144 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1980   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
145 Catalogue of important Oriental miniatures and a Mughal manuscript: the property of a gentleman : including a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa illustrated with thirty-five miniatures by the court artists of the Emperor Akbar, c. 1590-1595 ; Persian miniatures of the 17th-century Isfahan school ; Mughal miniatures of the late 16th and 17th century including a portrait of a young Mughal prince, c. 1605-10 ; three illustrations from a Mughal manuscript, c. 1590 ; a prince resting during a hawking expedition, c. 1595 ; youth and old age, by Muhammad Nadir of Samarqand, c. 1630-40 ; and examples of calligraphy and illumination [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1973   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
146 Catalogue of important Oriental miniatures and manuscripts: the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising calligraphy and illumination, including 10th century Qur'an leaves, Persian and Mughal illumination ; Persian miniatures from the 13th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the Manafi al-Hayawan, c. 1300 ; a leaf from a Shahnama, Shiraz c. 1570 ; a youth and a lion resting in a landscape, by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1629 ; a portrait of a young nobleman holding a staff, by Riza-i 'Abbasi, Isfahan, c. 1630 ; a rose bush in full bloom, by Muhammad Baqir, Qajar c. 1800 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including two leaves from the Baburnama, c. 1590 ; Noah seated in the Ark with his family and animals, late sixteenth century ; a leaf from the 'Victoria and Albert' Akbarnama, c. 1595-1600 ; Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of Abdullah Qutb Shah, Golconda, mid-seventeenth century ; a miniature from the Malwa Rasikapriya series of 1634 ; Persian and Arabic manuscripts, including a Qur'an section, Mamluk, fourteenth century ; the Stephens Shahnama, Shiraz, c. 1330-40 ; an illustrated Shahnama, provincial Persia or Western India, dated 878/1437 ; a profusely illustrated Shahnama, Tabriz, dated 912/1506 ; a compendium of epics, Qazwin, dated 976/1568-9 ; an illustrated astrological treatise, Mughal, dated 991/1583 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries, including a Bible in Armenian, New Julfa, Isfahan, dated 1637/8 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1976   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
147 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts, drawings and autograph letters and some printed books: the property of A.M.W. Curzon-Howe-Herrick, Esq., the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, the Hon. Basil Feilding, G.M.T. Foljambe, Esq., H.S.H. Prince Nicolai Lieven, the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, H.I.H. Prince Ali Vassib of Turkey, the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Willink, Bt., and others ; including an early Timurid manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, c. 1436 ; a fine album of Indian paintings, Delhi, 1836 ; the original drawings of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715 ; a large-paper copy of Redoutés 'Les roses' with the plates in two states, 1817-24 ; forty-six letters written by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 1787-96 ; a fine Flemish manuscript book of hours, c. 1460 ; the Herrick papers ; and the celebrated Warwick MSS of Sir Fulke Greville's Poems and dramas. [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1968   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
148 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, including the earliest known Nizami, dated 1386-1388, and Hebrew manuscripts: the property of the Dunraven Limerick Estates Company, Brigadier Lord Skelmersdale, D.S.O., M.C., the most hon. the Dowager Marchioness of Tweeddale, and the Trustees of the late Marquess of Tweeddale, and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1970   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
149 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a fragment from a manuscript of Husain Va'iz Kashifi's Anvar-i Suhaili with two miniatures, Mughal, c. 1565-70 ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a young lady reclining against a cushion, signed by Mu'in Musawwir, Isfahan, dated 1678 ; Persian lacquer from the 17th to the 19th century, including a mirror-case, style of Shafi Abbasi, late seventeenth century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including a berat of Sultan Ahmed III, Constantinople, dated 1715 ; a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, Qairawan, tenth century ; Arabic, Persian and South East Asian manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Ahmad al-Tabrizi, Qajar, dated 1860 ; al-Sami fi al-Asami (encyclopaedia of names) in contemporary brown morocco binding, Konya, dated 1419 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1987   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
150 Catalogue of Oriental miniatures and manuscripts and a small collection of reference books: including Mughal, Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures of the 17th to 19th century, including an 18th century picture of a youth leading a gazelle-hunt, Murshidabad, c. 1760 ; two paintings of maidens, Golconda, late 17th century ; Pahari miniatures of the 17th to 19th century ; Persian miniatures of the 15th to 19th century including a portrait of a bearded shepherd by Riza-I 'Abbasi ; calligraphy and Persian lacquer ; Arabic, Ethiopic and Persian manuscripts, including a military exercise by Col. James Skinner, c.b. (1778-1841) [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1974   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
151 Catalogue of Oriental miniatures and manuscripts, and an important Qajar painting: including Mughal, Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures of the 15th to 19th century, including a large red parrot, Mughal c. 1620-30 ; a portrait of a ruler, Deccani, first half of eighteenth century ; an illustration to the Bhagavata purana, Malwa or Mewar, c. 1540-60 ; an illustration to the Gita Govinda, c. 1600 ; Pahari miniatures of the 18th and 19th century, including Annapurna astride a white bull, Mankot c. 1730 ; Krishna leaving a disconsolate Radha, Bilaspur c. 1740 ; Persian miniatures of the 16th to 19th century, including an important Qajar painting of Fath 'Ali Shah's sons and grandsons, c. 1815 ; Persian calligraphy and lacquer ; Arabic, Burmese, Sanskrit and Persian manuscripts, including a Qur'an section with 15th century illumination ; a Qur'an written for Sultan Mehmed Fatih, Turkish third quarter of fifteenth century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1975   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
152 Catalogue of Oriental miniatures and manuscripts: comprising Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century ; Qajar lacquer pen-boxes and a mirror case, Persian, nineteenth century ; calligraphy and illumination from the 15th to the 19th century, including an illuminated firman of Sultan Mustafa II, Ottoman dated 1695 ; an early vellum Qur'an leaf, probably Qairouan, eighth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indian, Ethiopian and Armenian manuscripts and printed books, including a large Qur'an written by Sulayman Ratib, Ottoman, dated 1850 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including an illustration to the Razmnama, c. 1598 ; a gouache depicting Colonel Polier, after a Tilly Kettle original, Faizabad or Lucknow, c. 1780 ; Rajput miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including a durbar scene of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, c. 1850 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
153 Catalogue of Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Qajar paintings: comprising art reference books ; Company school natural history drawings ; Mughal miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a prince seated on a bed smoking a hookah, Mughal, c. 1760 ; Decanni, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including two fine portraits of Pahari princes, Mankot, c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to 19th centuries, including Shapur seated upon a gold chair, Isfahan, c. 1600 ; Qajar paintings a portrait of Muhammad Sadram Khan, c. 1810-20 ; a young lady playing a spike fiddle, c. 1810-20 ; a young lady, by Ali Quli, c. 1830 ; Arabic, Indian, Persian, Tibetan and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including Al-Bukhari's Sahih, Turkey dated 857/1453 ; Kitab Assma' Allah, Egypt dated 607/1210 ; a Qur'an section, Mamluk, late fourteenth century ; Persian lacquer, including a pair of painted lacquer doors, Qajar, late nineteenth century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1976   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
154 Catalogue of Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books: comprising Mughal and Deccani miniatures form the 17th to 19th century, including Prince Sulaiman Shikoh listening to an ascetic attributed to Chitarman, Mughal, c. 1660 ; a noblewoman playing chaupur, Lucknow, c. 1790 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th century, including three illustrations to the Bhagavata purana, Hindur, c. 1850-60 ; a portrait of a nobleman, Baha (Jammu), c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century ; calligraphy from the 15th to the 19th century, including two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami, Herat, late fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 19th century, including a miniature Qur'an, Turkey, dated 1412 ; an illuminated Qur'an section, Mamluk, Egypt, c. 1400 ; a Persian manuscript partly written in eastern kufic, Persia, dated 1203 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
155 A catalogue of rare and valuable books on bibles and theology, bibliography, classics, English history and literature, European history, Oriental history and literature, including some important miniatures, drawings, and paintings: with 24 illustrations ; also a remarkable collection of Siamese manuscripts and a selection of important new books [Sales Catalogue] Bernard Quaritch (Firm) 1931   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
156 Catalogue of valuable books, Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of Major-General E. H. Goulburn, D.S.O. and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1965   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
157 Catalogue of valuable books, Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, autograph letters and drawings [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1967   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
158 Catalogue of valuable printed books, fine bindings, Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, autograph letters and historical documents: comprising a collection of English, French, German, Dutch and Italian bookbindings ; a presentation copy of T.S. Eliot, The waste land, 1923 [...] fine Persian miniatures; a handsomely illuminated Shiraz manuscript of Nizami; and the celebrated manuscript of the Razm Nama, executed by artists of the Emperor Akbar's atelier, the property of Gerald Reitlinger, Esq., the property of the Rt. Hon. Baron Inverchapel [...] also the last letter of the Duke of Monmouth, written on the eve of his execution [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1954   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
159 Catalogue of valuable printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters and drawings: the properties of Sir Charles Ponsonby, Bt., the Rev. Hugh Cuthbertson, M.A. and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1962   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
160 Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian, Jain, Mughal, provincial Indian and Tibetan miniatures, including works by Muhammed Yusuf and Muqim of Bukhara ; a fine miniature of the Akbar period and a seventeenth-century example from Bijapur ; a fourteenth-century Mamluk binding ; and a finely illuminated Bukharan MS of the Sayings of Ali ; Aristotle's Organon, written by Damianus Guidotes, from San Francesco della Vigna, Venice ; a Greek gospel lectionary of 1655, written by Joasaph ; a 12th century Armenian gospels from Antioch and a 15th century Armenian gospels from Melitene ; French, Italian and Flemish miniatures, including examples by Simon Bening and Prayerbook Master of c. 1500 ; and a splendidly illuminated Spanish leaf ; an English 13th century psalter, in the original binding ; a book of hours of York Use ; an English ms. of Bede ; manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbeys of Pontigny and Val-Notre-Dame ; a good Italian 13th century bible ; and a fine Parisian bible of c.1300 ; illuminated books of hours from Artois, Rouen and Paris ; 16th century Spanish grants of arms, 18th century certifications of arms and the finely written and illuminated grant of the lordship of Valparaiso de Abajo, 1631 ;the Dartmouth hours, with 27 miniatures, c. 1440-50 ; the St. Cyprian of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Bohemia ; one of five known manuscripts of the prose version of Deguileville's Pélerinage de vie humaine, from the library of Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France, illustrated by a follower of the Master of King René. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1964   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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