| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of highly important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, the property of the Kevorkian Foundation : comprising calligraphy and illumination, including Qur'an leaves from the 9th to the 15th century, Mamluk and Persian illumination, calligraphy by Kamal al-Din Husayn and 'Imad Al-Husayni ; three 14th century Mamluk designs for Automata, Persian miniatures, including leaves from manuscripts of the Manafi al-Hayawan (c. 1300), the Kalilah wa Dimnah (c. 1333), the 'Demotte' Shahnama, the Zafar nama (c.1436) and the Shahnama executed for Isma 'Il II ; miniatures attributed to Bihzad, 'Abd Al-Samad, Wali, Nuri Isfahani, Riza-i 'Abbasi, Muhammad Yusuf, Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad 'Ali and Mu'in ; Turkish miniatures, including two late 16th century portraits of sultans ; Indian miniatures, including leaves from manuscripts of the Baburnama (c. 1590), the Akbarnama, and the Razmnama (c. 1616) ; a miniature attributed to Mir Taqi, an early 17th century miniature of the Virgin and Child, and leaves from an album made for Shah Jahan ; manuscripts of the Qur'an, and a manuscript written by Sultan 'Ali Al-Mashhadi ; an illuminated manuscript of the Shahnama dated 1457, and manuscripts illustrated in the styles of Shiraz, Tabriz, Bukhara, Qazwin and Isfahan ; a Turkish manuscript of Yusuf and Zuklaykha (c. 1580), and a manuscript of the Zafar nama with early seventeenth century Mughal miniatures |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1969 |
| Physical desc. |
101 pages, 81 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
01/12/1969 |
| Includes loosely inserted printed list of prices and buyers' names. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 7, lot 11 (Per 257); p. 18, lot 37 (Majma' al-Tavarikh); p. 28, lot 66 (Shahnama 'probably executed for Ismai'il II); p. 34, lot 79 ('Portrait of a page holding a bottle and cup, by Riza-i 'Abbasi' [possibly referring to Per 260.2]); p. 38, lot 87; p. 51, lot 114 (Akbarnama; Mir Taqi); p. 55, lot 118 (late-sixteenth-century Mughal Shahnama); p. 56, lot 120 ('probably an illustration from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama' [Akbarnama]); p. 73, lot 150 (In 07B); p. 75, lot 152 (comparison with a similar picture in the Minto album 'now in the Chester Beatty Library'); p. 77, lot 156 (Per 276); p. 79, lot 164 (comparison with a similar picture in the Minto album 'now in the Chester Beatty Library'); p. 87, lot 186 (Per 275); p. 96, lot 194 (T 428). |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 1 December 1969, London |
| Corporate name |
Kevorkian Foundation -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07B |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 257 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 260.2 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 275 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 276 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 428 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Turkish -- Catalogs |
| Miniature painting, Mogul -- Catalogs |
