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Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and Qajar lacquer : comprising Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including two illustrations to the Jami al-Tavarikh, Mughal, c. 1596-1600 ; a portrait by Govardhan, Mughal, early seventeenth century; Deccani and central Indian miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a portrait of the minister Saif al-Mulk leading a hunting party, Hyderabad, second half of eighteenth century ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a holy man eating a boar's head in the presence of a Mughal emperor, Kishangarh, c. 1740 ; a portrait of Maharana Sangram Singh, Mewar, c. 1720 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 14th to the 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a portrait of a standing youth, signed by Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, c. 1625 ; Persian, Arabic, Ottoman, Armenian, Indian and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 14th to the 19th century, including Sa'di's Kulliyat illustrated with eight miniatures in the court Turkman style, c. 1460-70 ; Nizami's Khamsa illustrated with twenty-four miniatures, Qazwin/Mashhad dated 1580 ; Firdausi's Shahnama, illustrated with twenty-four miniatures, Qazwin/Mashhad, dated 1580 ; the Four gospels in Armenian, copied and illuminated by Karapet of Berkri, S.E. Turkey, fifteenth century ; Persian lacquer, including a mirror-case in the style of Najaf, Qajar dated 1858 |
