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Catalogue of important Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy and illumination from the 8th to the 19th century, including two Qur'an leaves in ma'il script, Medina, eighth century ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the 'Demotte' Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1330-1350 ; a shepherd, signed by Mu'in Musawwir, Isfahan, dated 1676 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including three leaves from an album executed for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, c. 1600-1610 ; an illustration from an historical manuscript, Mughal, c. 1610 ; four illustrations from the Razmnama, Mughal, c.1616 ; a portrait of Mehdi Quli Khan by Ram Das, Mughal, c. 1660 ; Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including an illustration from a Ragamala series, Mewar, c. 1680 ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including an autograph anthology by Jajarmi, Tabriz, dated 1340 ; Musa's Ghazaliyyat with three miniatures, school of Bihzad, Herat, last quarter of fifteenth century ; an illustrated Turkman Khamsa, Shiraz, dated 1503 ; an illustrated manuscript commissioned by the Mughal Prince Kamran, Bukhara, c. 1550 ; Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with seventy-six miniatures, Khurasan, probably Herat, c. 1570 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 15th to 17th century, including the Four Gospels copied and illuminated by Nikoghayos of Kaffa, Crimea, dated 1658, in a silver binding by Eghia. |
