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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 |
