| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century, including fourteen drawings from a sketchbook of wild and domesticated animals, Calcutta, c.1812 ; a miniature depicting a pair of mynah birds, Mughal, c.1620 ; a miniature depicting a princess making an offering at a shrine, Deccan, first half of eighteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including an ink drawing of a girl standing beside a blossoming tree, Turkey, first quarter of seventeenth century ; calligraphy, illumination and firmans from the 16th century to the 19th century, including a waqfiyyah manuscript of Hadim Ibrahim Pasha, with six illuminated tughras of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent ; Qur'ans and Qur'an leaves from the 9th to the 19th century, including a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, the Great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an section written in eastern kufic, Iraq or Persia, eleventh century ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by Mir Munshi, with an inscription in the hand of the Emperor Shah Jahan, probably Bukhara, dated 1558 ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by Mirza Ali Akbar Ibn Ja'far al-Tabtabai, Qajar, dated 1797 ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including a manuscript of Sa'di's Gulistan, illustrated with fifty-five miniatures, written at Delhi, dated 1744 ; a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with forty-one miniatures, Mughal India, dated 1590 ; a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with thirty-five miniatures, Qajar, dated 1834. |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1989 |
| Physical desc. |
65 pages, 52 pages of plates |
| illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
13/10/1989 |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 19-20, lots 48-51 (Majma' al-Tavarikh [Per 105]); p. 30, lot 78 (eleventh-century Qur'an [Is 1607]); p. 31, lot 79 (comparison with [Is 1607]; p. 31, lot 80 (thirteenth-century Qur'an; comparison with a Qur'an folio in James, Qur'ans and bindings, London, 1980, no. 17). |
| Includes a loosely inserted price list with annotations (check marks at some lot numbers). |
| Date & place of sale |
Friday, 13 October 1989, London |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1607 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 105 |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Indic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Islamic calligraphy -- Catalogs |
