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161 Catalogue of Western, Hebrew and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of Lord Piers Brudenell-Bruce, Sri Ram Gopal, Christopher Lorimer, Esq., Colonel Joseph W. Weld, O.B.E., T.D, and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1970   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
162 Collection Jean Soustiel [Sales Catalogue] Drouot-Richelieu (Firm) 1999   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
163 Collection Sevadjian: peintures et dessins de la Perse et des Indes (écoles moghules) ; scenes et portraits ; miniatures a sujets européeans ; pages de manuscrits du XIVe au XVIIe siècles ; enluminures persanes [Sales Catalogue] Hôtel Drouot 1960   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
164 Colonnade: Oriental art : antiquities, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian art, [...] textiles, Indian and Persian manuscripts and miniatures, Indian and South-East Asian art, [...] tribal, Japanese and Chinese art [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1993   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
165 Eastern rugs, carpets and textiles, Islamic works of art [Sales Catalogue] Phillips Son & Neale (London, England) 1979   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
166 An exhibition of Persian and Indian miniature paintings: from the collections of Demotte, Inc. [Printed Book] Demotte, Inc 1934   Number of Holdings: 1.
167 Fine Islamic, Persian and Indian works of art: including Qajar paintings and lacquerwork, miniatures, calligraphy, textiles, metalwork, objects of art and jewelry [Sales Catalogue] Habsburg, Feldman S.A. 1989   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
168 Fine Islamic works of art: including an important group of 175 Qajar works of art : oil paintings, qalamdans, mirror-cases, miniatures and watercolors ; Qur'ans, calligraphy, Safavid miniatures, pottery and metalwork ; Ottoman Qur'ans, calligraphy and miniatures [Sales Catalogue] Habsburg, Feldman S.A. 1990   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
169 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
170 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Mughal, Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including eight Mughal and Deccani miniatures from an album collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps ; an illustration to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1616 ; seven ragamala illustrations, Deccan, first quarter of the eighteenth century ; a hunting expedition, Jaipur, c. 1840 ; a prince and his entourage out hunting crocodile, Uniara, c. 1760 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including Radha and Krishna playing backgammon, Basohli, c. 1760 ; an illustration to the Rasika priya, Kangra, c. 1820-25 ; a portrait of Maharaja Kirat Singh, Kashtwar, c. 1700 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata purana, Basohli, c. 1760-65 ; a collection of Chinese drawings on paper and rice paper, including an album of twenty coloured drawings of exotic butterflies and insects, Canton, 1805-10 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 10th to 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to 19th century ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror-cases, including a pen-box signed by Lutf-Ali, Qajar, dated 1858 ; Arabic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and printed books, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Ottoman, early sixteenth century ; the Dufferin and Ava Shahnama, illustrated with fifty-eight miniatures in the Timurid style, Shiraz, dated 1436 and 1437 ; Min Kalam Ali Ibn al-Husain (Sayings of Ali), Arabic manuscript written in alternating lines of gold and black naskhi script, Persia, c. 1520-30 ; Tashrih Mansuri (a treatise on the anatomy of the human body) illustrated with six diagrams, Persia, seventeenth century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
171 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Mughal, Deccani and Rajput miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including an album of watercolours, Kalighat, c. 1855 ; a portrait of a prince, Bijapur, c. 1620 ; illustrations to a manuscript of the Ramayana, Pahari, perhaps Chamba, c. 1730 ; two important Mughal miniatures from a royal album executed during the reign of Shah Jahan ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; calligraphy and illumination from the 10th to the 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century ; a collection of illuminated Ottoman firmans, including a firman of Sultan Muhammad IV (reigned from 1648-1687) ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror cases, Qajar, nineteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic manuscripts from the 11th to the 19th century, including an Ilkhanid Qur'an section, Persia, c. 1310 ; a Qur'an fragment written in blue and gold muhaqqaq, Mamluk or Ottoman, fifteenth century ; a large illuminated Qur'an, Persia, fourteenth century ; an autograph Mamluk manuscript of al-Sahmawi's Kitab al-Iltija Ila Taraf al-Naja, probably Egypt, dated 1423 ; Rumi's Mathnavi, with double page of fine illumination, Persia, dated 1481 ; Ibn al-Athir's Nuzhat al-Nazir wa Burhad al-Khatir, Mamluk, probably Egypt, dated 1385 ; four volumes of Ibn Sina's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb, one dated 1073 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
172 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Company school and Kalighat watercolours, including an album by Manu Lal, Calcutta, c. 1798 ; an album of portraits of tribesman, Punjab Plains, c. 1848 ; Mughal, Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures, including Krishna revered by the gopis, Murshidabad, c. 1780 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata Purana, Bilaspur, c. 1700, Ragamala illustrations, Kangra, c. 1780-90 ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a double-page frontispiece attributed to Shaykhzadeh, Tabriz, c. 1520 ; a miniature of Iskandar comforting the dying Dara, signed by Mu'in Musavvir, Isfahan, c. 1648-49 ; four early Ottoman bindings formerly in the collection of F.R. Martin, Turkey, second half of fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an fragment written in muhaqqaq script in alternating blue and gold, Mamluk or Ottoman, fifteenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an section, probably Tabriz, dated 1483 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with twenty-six miniatures in the commercial Turkman style, dated 1486-88 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
173 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Kalighat and Company school watercolours, including a gouache depicting two princesses playing chess, Oudh, c.1780 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including four illustrations to the Razmnama, Mughal, c.1610-20 ; two fine Mughal portraits attributed to Manohar and Murad from a royal album executed during the reign of Shah Jahan ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of a nobleman, Bikaner, mid-seventeenth century ; four ragamala illustrations, Bilaspur, c.1730-40 ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including an Ottoman portrait of a court beauty, attributed to Rafael the Armenian, Constantinople, mid-eighteenth century ; a portrait of a lady, signed by Muhammad Qasim Al-Tabrizi, Isfahan, c.1640-50 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to the 20th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in Kufic in gold, Qairawan, early tenth century ; an Islamic legal scroll on vellum, Mamluk, probably Egypt, dated 1425, 1453 and 1454 ; eight leaf skeletons with calligraphy and designs in gold, probably Turkey, nineteenth century ; an illuminated Ottoman firman of Sultan Muhammad IV, Constantinople, dated 1670 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian manuscripts from the 10th to the 20th century, including a Qur'an fragment on vellum, North Africa, thirteenth century ; an illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, third quarter of sixteenth century ; a treatise on falconry, probably Syria, dated 1223 ; Ibn Khaqan's Qala'id al-'Iqyan wa Mahasin al-'Ayan (a biographical compilation on the lives of eminent writers and poets of Spain), Mamluk, second half of fourteenth century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
174 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a miniature depicting the Prophet Muhammad riding a camel outside the walls of the Ka'ba, Mughal, c.1600 ; a portrait of a nobleman out riding a dapple-grey stallion, Deccan, early eighteenth century ; a portrait of Jahangir by Muhammad Husain, Deccan, c.1680 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a portrait of Mian Mukan Dev of Jasrota, Basohli, c.1760-1770 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including two miniatures from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, India, Sultanate, mid-fifteenth century ; two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c.1570 ; calligraphy from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustrated firman of Sultan Selim II, Constantinople, dated 1566 ; two large calligraphic panels, signed by Umaral al-Wasif Sivasi, Constantinople, dated 1845 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 19th century, including two vellum Qur'an leaves written in kufic script in gold, the great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; Qur'ans from the 12th to the 19th century, including a small Qur'an section, Seljuk, Anatolia, twelfth century ; an illustrated Qur'an section (Juz XI), Sultanate, fifteenth century ; an illustrated Qur'an on gold-sprinkled paper, India, eighteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 20th century, including Ibn Sina's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), Book III, Juz I, North Africa, thirteenth century ; Ubaidallah bin Mas'ud Sharh Wiqayat al-Riwayah fi Masa'il al-Hidayah, contemporary brown morocco binding, Ottoman, third quarter of fifteenth-century ; Hatifi's Timurnama with three full-page miniatures, Ottoman, dated 1499 ; Jami's Yusuf va Zulaykha with eight miniatures, Bukhara, mid-sixteenth century, and later Nizami's Khamsa with four double-page miniatures in the style of Mirza Ali, Mashhad, dated 1576-77 ; a collection of Arabic manuscripts on medicine from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Majusi's Kamil al-Sina'ah al-Tibiyyah, Persia dated 1434 and 1437 ; Abu Ali Yahya Ibn'Issa bin Jazalah's Taqwim al-Abdan, Ottoman, dated 1585 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1985   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
175 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to 20th centuries, including a large vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic script, North Africa, ninth/tenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to 20th centuries, including an illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c.1570-80 ; a crouching youth restrains a furiously bucking ram, signed by Reza-i Abbasi, Isfahan, dated 1623 ; seven illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi (The life of the Prophet), commissioned by Sultan Murad III, Constantinople, c.1594 ; Qur'ans from the 12th to 20th centuries, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Persia or Turkey, dated 1333 ; a Timurid Qur'an, probably Shiraz, early fifteenth century ; an Ottoman Qur'an section written in muhaqqaq script in alternative blue and gold, Turkey, fifteenth century ; a large Qur'an with an opening double page of fine illumination, Ottoman, c.1590 ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by Abdul-Karim Muhammad Sadiq al-Husaini al-Yazdi, Qajar, dated 1849 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic, Armenian, and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to 20th centuries, including Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr with five miniatures, Shiraz, dated 1441 ; Jami's Haft Awrang with thirteen miniatures by a pupil of Bihzad, Herat dated 1505 ; the Four Gospels, illustrated Armenian manuscript on vellum copied and illuminated by Yovanes of Khizan, Khizan (S.E. Turkey), dated 1620/21 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th centuries ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th centuries, including a miniature from the Akhbar-i Barmakiyan, Mughal, late sixteenth century ; an illustration to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c.1570 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1985   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
176 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Company school watercolours, including two formerly in the 'Fraser' album, Delhi and Punjab c.1810-20 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c.1570 ; a prince on a hunting expedition, executed in the style of Sur Das, Mughal, c.1600 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including six ragamala illustrations executed by Ruknuddin, Bikaner, c.1680 ; two ragmala illustrations, Basohli, c.1690-95 ; twenty-one Indian and Persian miniatures formerly in the Sevadjian collection, including two mullahs standing in discussion, Deccan, possibly Bijapur, second quarter of 17th century ; a bird perched on a rock, signed by Mu'in, dated 1685 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including a master wrestler throwing a younger competitor, signed by Abdallah, Ottoman, c.1610 ; a biographical treatise containing thirty-two portraits of the sultans of Turkey, Ottoman, 19th century ; a European oil painting of a Turkish lady by a north European artist working in Europe or Istanbul, first half of 17th century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated berat of Sultan Mustafa IV, Constantinople, dated 1807 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 16th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in kufic in gold, Qairawan, 10th century ; Qur'ans from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Hafiz Usman, Ottoman, dated 1671 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Mawardi's Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah, Alexandria, dated 1281 ; Firdausi's Shahnama with twenty-two miniatures, Turkman, c.1500 ; Hafiz's Divan with eleven miniatures, Khurasan, perhaps Mashhad, dated 1586 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1986   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
177 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including two illustrations to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c. 1570 ; an illustration to the Harivamsa, Mughal, c. 1585-1590 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of a courtier, Basohli, c. 1700 ; an illustration to a ragamala series, Basohli, c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including four illustrated leaves from a manuscript of the History of Shah Isma'il, with miniatures attributed to Mu'in, Isfahan, third quarter of seventeenth century ; a series of thirty-five illustrations of omens (Falnama), provincial Mughal, c. 1580 ; twenty-four album pages with miniatures and calligraphy from a royal album commissioned for Nasr ad-Din Shah Qajar, signed by Isma'il, dated 1854 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 19th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in kufic script in gold, Qairawan, tenth century ; Qur'ans from the 12th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an on vellum written in naskhi script, school of Yaqut al-Musta 'simi, Baghdad, c. 1250 ; Qur'an section (Juz XIII), with contemporary binding tooled in blind and gold, from a thirty-volume set made for Amir Aytmish al-Basaji [sic.; Bajasi], Mamluk, c. 1400 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South East Asian manuscripts from the 12th to the 19th century, including Sa'di's Bustan with three miniatures attributed to Ali Musawwir, Tabriz, dated 1529 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1986   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
178 Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting a royal elephant walking across a field, attributable to Mihr Chand or Bahadur Singh, Lucknow or Faizabad, c.1765-70 ; a miniature depicting Najm ad-Din Ali Khan watching a nautch, signed by Kalyan Das, Mughal, c.1750 ; a miniature depicting Yusuf and Zulaykha on a garden terrace, signed by Faizullah, provincial Mughal, Oudh, c.1765 ; an illustrated leaf from a poetical manuscript depicting a poet riding a mule, Mughal, c.1600 ; a portrait of the court musician Ali Khan Karori, signed by Mansur, Mughal, c.1600 ; Company school drawings from the 19th century, including the Henry Pitman album of one hundred and fifty-seven portraits and scenes, western India, c.1848 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting Raja Savant Singh and Bani Thani as Radha and Krishna, attributable to Nihal Chand, Kishangarh, c.1750 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting a prince on horseback shooting at a mark during an archery contest, signed by Shaykh Abbasi, Isfahan, dated 1654 ; three illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi, commissioned for Sultan Murad III, Constantinople, c.1594 ; a portrait of a youthful courtier, by Levni, Constantinople, c.1720-50 ; two portraits of Shah Abbas I and his ambassador Mehdi Quli Beg, from the collection of emperor Rudolph II, Esaye le Gillon, Prague, dated 1605 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an leaf written in naskhi in gold, Egypt, c.1313 ; Qur'ans from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Abbasid, twelfth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including Nizami's Khusrau and Shirin, with four miniatures signed by Dhannu, Dharm Das, Bhawani Das, and Makra, Mughal, c.1590 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1987   Number of Holdings: 1.
179 Fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Islamic works of art [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Number of Holdings: 1.
180 Fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Islamic works of art [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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