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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Mughal, Deccani and Rajput miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including an album of watercolours, Kalighat, c. 1855 ; a portrait of a prince, Bijapur, c. 1620 ; illustrations to a manuscript of the Ramayana, Pahari, perhaps Chamba, c. 1730 ; two important Mughal miniatures from a royal album executed during the reign of Shah Jahan ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; calligraphy and illumination from the 10th to the 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century ; a collection of illuminated Ottoman firmans, including a firman of Sultan Muhammad IV (reigned from 1648-1687) ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror cases, Qajar, nineteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic manuscripts from the 11th to the 19th century, including an Ilkhanid Qur'an section, Persia, c. 1310 ; a Qur'an fragment written in blue and gold muhaqqaq, Mamluk or Ottoman, fifteenth century ; a large illuminated Qur'an, Persia, fourteenth century ; an autograph Mamluk manuscript of al-Sahmawi's Kitab al-Iltija Ila Taraf al-Naja, probably Egypt, dated 1423 ; Rumi's Mathnavi, with double page of fine illumination, Persia, dated 1481 ; Ibn al-Athir's Nuzhat al-Nazir wa Burhad al-Khatir, Mamluk, probably Egypt, dated 1385 ; four volumes of Ibn Sina's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb, one dated 1073 |
