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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Persian lacquer: comprising Persian miniatures from the fourteenth to nineteenth century, including one leaf from an Inju-style Shahnama, Shiraz, c.1341 ; an elderly man lies prostrate upon a couch, Bukhara, third quarter of sixteenth century ; a prince seated upon a gold hexagonal throne, Tabriz/Qazwin, mid-sixteenth century ; a young nobleman, by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1087/1676 ; Nawab Jalal al-Dawla, by Mubarak ibn Muhammad Al-Qajar, Qajar, c.1860 ; Arabic, Burmese, Ethiopic, Indian, Indonesian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including Assar's Mihr u Mushtari, Turkman, dated 822/1419 ; Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with forty-two miniatures, Qazwin dated 973/1565 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with thirty-four miniatures in Isfahan style, Andizhan dated 1003/1595 to 1005/1597 ; Luft Ali Ibn Aka Khan's Atashkadah, Qajar, dated 1216/1801 ; Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including a pen-box in the style of Ali Ashraf, Persia dated 1165/1752 ; a mirror-case by Muhammad Isma'il, Qajar, dated 1274/1857 ; a pen-box by Abd Al-Rahim Isfahani, Qajar, dated 1322/1904

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Corporate Author Sotheby's (Firm)
Title Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Persian lacquer : part two : comprising Persian miniatures from the fourteenth to nineteenth century, including one leaf from an Inju-style Shahnama, Shiraz, c.1341 ; an elderly man lies prostrate upon a couch, Bukhara, third quarter of sixteenth century ; a prince seated upon a gold hexagonal throne, Tabriz/Qazwin, mid-sixteenth century ; a young nobleman, by Mu'in, Isfahan, dated 1087/1676 ; Nawab Jalal al-Dawla, by Mubarak ibn Muhammad Al-Qajar, Qajar, c.1860 ; Arabic, Burmese, Ethiopic, Indian, Indonesian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including Assar's Mihr u Mushtari, Turkman, dated 822/1419 ; Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with forty-two miniatures, Qazwin dated 973/1565 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with thirty-four miniatures in Isfahan style, Andizhan dated 1003/1595 to 1005/1597 ; Luft Ali Ibn Aka Khan's Atashkadah, Qajar, dated 1216/1801 ; Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including a pen-box in the style of Ali Ashraf, Persia dated 1165/1752 ; a mirror-case by Muhammad Isma'il, Qajar, dated 1274/1857 ; a pen-box by Abd Al-Rahim Isfahani, Qajar, dated 1322/1904
Publisher London : Sotheby's, 1976
Physical desc. 83 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Note 23/11/1976; part two of a two-day sale; part 1: Mughal and Indian miniatures (Monday 22 November 1976).
'Sotheby's Autumn Islamic week'--cover.
Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 5-6, lots 246-250 (Per 105); p. 8, lot 255 (Per 104); p. 9, lot 256 (Per 110); p. 45, lot 405 (comparison with Per 299).
Date & place of sale Tuesday 23 November 1976, London
Subject Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs
Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 104
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 105
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 110
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Catalogs
Painting, Indic -- Catalogs
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs
Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs
Manuscripts, Turkish -- Catalogs
Lacquer and lacquering -- Iran -- Catalogs
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10013664 Box 13
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