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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 |
