| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books : comprising calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an leaf in gold kufic, Arabic, 12th century ; Indian miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including four illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, Mankot or Jammu, c. 1750 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including an illustrated leaf from the Zafarnama of 1436 ; nineteenth-century Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including a mirror-case signed by Ahmad, dated 1859 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 12th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an, Mamluk, second half of 14th century ; al-Biruni's treatise on the astrolabe with numerous diagrams, Seljuk, Sivas, dated 1231 ; a genealogical scroll, Jerusalem, c. 1486 ; Nizam's Khamsa, illustrated with sixteen miniatures, Shiraz dated 1521 ; an illuminated Armenian bible with approximately forty-three miniatures, New Julfa, Isfahan? dated 1651 and/or 1661 |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1982 |
| Physical desc. |
140 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
27/04/1982 |
| Property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund and others. |
| At head of cover title: 'Sotheby's spring Islamic sales'. |
| Includes a loosely inserted list of price estimates and another with final prices. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 21, lot 23 (Is 1609); p. 79, lot 207 (Is 1469, a-d) [colour plate missing]; p. 137, lot 300 (examples of the use of gold in Armenian bibles). |
| Leaf between pages 76 and 79 missing (colour plate for lot 207). |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday 27 April 1982, London |
| Corporate name |
Hagop Kevorkian Fund -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1469 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1609 |
| Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| 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, Armenian -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Indic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Ethiopic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- Catalogs |
| Rare books -- Catalogs |
