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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including two illustrations to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c. 1570 ; an illustration to the Harivamsa, Mughal, c. 1585-1590 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of a courtier, Basohli, c. 1700 ; an illustration to a ragamala series, Basohli, c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including four illustrated leaves from a manuscript of the History of Shah Isma'il, with miniatures attributed to Mu'in, Isfahan, third quarter of seventeenth century ; a series of thirty-five illustrations of omens (Falnama), provincial Mughal, c. 1580 ; twenty-four album pages with miniatures and calligraphy from a royal album commissioned for Nasr ad-Din Shah Qajar, signed by Isma'il, dated 1854 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 19th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in kufic script in gold, Qairawan, tenth century ; Qur'ans from the 12th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an on vellum written in naskhi script, school of Yaqut al-Musta 'simi, Baghdad, c. 1250 ; Qur'an section (Juz XIII), with contemporary binding tooled in blind and gold, from a thirty-volume set made for Amir Aytmish al-Basaji [sic.; Bajasi], Mamluk, c. 1400 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South East Asian manuscripts from the 12th to the 19th century, including Sa'di's Bustan with three miniatures attributed to Ali Musawwir, Tabriz, dated 1529 |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 56, lot 136 (Harivamsa [In 32.2.12]); p. 110, lot 243 (blue vellum Qur'an leaf [Is 1405]); p. 120, lot 259 (comparison with a folio written by Ali bin Muhammad al Husaini al-Alawi, Mosul, 1306-1311); p. 140, lot 283 (section of a 30-volume Mamluk Qur'an, c. 1400, part of which is in the CB [ possibly linked to Is 1478 and Is 1495]). |
