| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of highly important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Kevorkian Foundation : comprising Persian, Arabic, and Turkish calligraphy, including Qur'an leaves of the 11th and 12th century, and examples of nasta'liq and naskhi calligraphy ; a Mamluk design for an automaton, (c. 1315) ; Persian miniatures, including a leaf from the 'Demotte' Shahnama, miniatures in the Inju, Shiraz and Turkman styles, a leaf from the Shahnama executed for Shah Isma'il II, and drawings and miniatures in the styles of Qazwin and Isfahan ; a late sixteenth-century Turkish miniature of a picnic ; Indian miniatures, including a leaf from a manuscript of the Baburnama (c. 1590), a portrait of Babur (c. 1600), leaves from an album made for Shah Jahan with examples of his writing, and Mughal and Rajasthani miniatures of the 17th to 19th century ; manuscripts of the Qur'an of the 10th to 18th century, Nizami's Khamsa dated 1449, a manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha from the Imperial Mughal Library, Firdausi's Shahnama dated 1497 with miniatures by Muhammad Musa, Nizami's Khamsa dated 1521 with miniatures in the Shiraz style, and manuscripts illustrated in the styles of Shiraz, Tabriz, Bukhara, Qazwin and Khurasan |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1970 |
| Physical desc. |
82 pages, 54 pages of plates ; illustrations (3 color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
07/12/1970 |
| Spine title: The Kevorkian Foundation. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 5, lot 1 (Is 1433); p. 6, lot 3 (Is 1436); p. 21, lot 48 (Shahnama 'probably produced for Shah Isma'il II'); p. 66, lot 180 (Is 1446); p. 68, lot 186 (Per 275); p. 69, lot 188 ([Per 127]). |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 7 December 1970, London |
| Corporate name |
Kevorkian Foundation -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1433 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1436 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1446 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 127 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 275 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Mogul -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Turkish -- Catalogs |
| Islamic calligraphy -- Catalogs |
