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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Company school watercolours, including two formerly in the 'Fraser' album, Delhi and Punjab c.1810-20 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c.1570 ; a prince on a hunting expedition, executed in the style of Sur Das, Mughal, c.1600 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including six ragamala illustrations executed by Ruknuddin, Bikaner, c.1680 ; two ragmala illustrations, Basohli, c.1690-95 ; twenty-one Indian and Persian miniatures formerly in the Sevadjian collection, including two mullahs standing in discussion, Deccan, possibly Bijapur, second quarter of 17th century ; a bird perched on a rock, signed by Mu'in, dated 1685 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including a master wrestler throwing a younger competitor, signed by Abdallah, Ottoman, c.1610 ; a biographical treatise containing thirty-two portraits of the sultans of Turkey, Ottoman, 19th century ; a European oil painting of a Turkish lady by a north European artist working in Europe or Istanbul, first half of 17th century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated berat of Sultan Mustafa IV, Constantinople, dated 1807 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 16th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in kufic in gold, Qairawan, 10th century ; Qur'ans from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Hafiz Usman, Ottoman, dated 1671 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Mawardi's Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah, Alexandria, dated 1281 ; Firdausi's Shahnama with twenty-two miniatures, Turkman, c.1500 ; Hafiz's Divan with eleven miniatures, Khurasan, perhaps Mashhad, dated 1586 |
