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81 |
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Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and Qajar lacquer: comprising calligraphy from the 9th to the 20th century, including an album page signed by Fath Ali Shah, Qajar, c. 1830 ; Persian and Ottoman miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century ; Persian, Arabic, Ottoman, Ethiopic, Indian and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 15th to the 19th century, including Ulugh Beg's Zij-i Sultani (astronomical tables), Herat or Samarqand, c. 1447-49 ; a fifteenth-century illuminated Mamluk prayer scroll ; an illuminated Qur'an written by the scribe Yusuf Bin Abdullah, Ottoman, dated 1575 ; Persian lacquer, including a pen-box signed by Muhammad Isma'il, Qajar, 1865 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including two illustrations to the Jami al-Tavarikh, Mughal, c. 1596-1600 ; a series of portraits collected by William Fraser, Delhi, c. 1800 ; Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including violets with variegated leaves, by Muhammad Taqi, Deccan or Persia, dated 1666 A.D.; a Ragamala illustration, Bundi, c. 1591 ; Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th century, including two illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, Kangra, c. 1780 ; an illustration to the Gita Govinda, Kangra, c. 1820-25 ; a portrait of a princess, Guler, c. 1770 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1980 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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82 |
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Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and Qajar lacquer: comprising a collection of Company school watercolours executed for William Fraser, c. 1810-20 ; a portrait of Bahadur Shah II by Ghulam 'Ali Khan, Company school dated 1838-39 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a drawing of an elephant by Nanha, Mughal, c. 1615 ; four illustrations to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1598 ; Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a princess choosing jewellery, Kangra, c. 1800-10 ; a pensive princess comforted by two female companions, Basohli, c. 1770-80 ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 20th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf, Qa'rawan, early tenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an leaf in kufic script, Iraq or Persia, eleventh century ; Persian and Ottoman miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including an album page with two Safavid drawings, Isfahan, late sixteenth/early seventeenth century ; a portrait of a youth, attributed to Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, early seventeenth century ; Persian, Arabic, Ottoman, Ethiopic, Indian and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 14th to the 20th century, including Rashid Al-Din's Jami al-Tawarikh (World history), illustrated with one hundred miniatures, written by order of the Il-Khanid ruler Uljaytu at the Rashidiya scriptorium, Tabriz dated 1314 ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by the scribe Mir Munshi, Bukhara, dated 1558 ; Persian lacquer including a pen-box signed by Najaf, Qajar, c. 1840 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1980 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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83 |
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Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts: the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : comprising bindings from the 15th to 19th century, including a fourteenth century Mamluk brown morocco binding decorated with geometric design with dots filled in gold and blind ; Arabic, Persian and Ottoman manuscripts from the 9th to 19th century, including a Qur'an section on vellum, written in kufic script, Arabic, 9th century ; a large Mamluk Qur'an written for Qa'it Bay, Egypt dated 1488 ; Nizami's Khamsa with 5 double pages of illumination, Persian dated 1533 ; Attar's Asrarnama and 5 other works with one double page of illumination and six illuminated headpieces, India dated 1569 ; Tusi's Mashkalat al-Isharat, Baghdad dated 1292-93 ; Tusi's Tahrir al-Majisti (Persian translation of Ptolemy's Almagest) with numerous tables and diagrams, Persia dated 1487 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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84 |
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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures and manuscripts: comprising two Company school albums ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of the Emperor Aurangzeb, Mughal, c. 1660 ; a ragamala illustration by Faqirullah, Mughal, c. 1750-60 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including ragamala illustrations, Jaipur c.1760 ; a portrait of a prince, Guler, c.1790 ; Indian drawings from the Pan Asian collection including a buffalo fight attributed to Farrukh Chela, Mughal, late sixteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 16th to 17th century, including an album of coloured drawings of costumes, landscapes, including several fold-out panoramic townscapes, Ottoman, 18th century ; Ottoman firmans from the 16th to 19th century, including an illuminated firman of Murad III, Constantinople, dated 1575 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic, Armenian and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 15th to 20th century, including a psalter, Ethiopic manuscript on vellum illustrated with thirty-seven miniatures, Ethiopia, 15th century ; Nizami's selected poems illustrated with thirty-three small miniatures, Transoxiana, c.1500 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1983 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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85 |
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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 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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86 |
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Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, including the earliest known Nizami, dated 1386-1388, and Hebrew manuscripts: the property of the Dunraven Limerick Estates Company, Brigadier Lord Skelmersdale, D.S.O., M.C., the most hon. the Dowager Marchioness of Tweeddale, and the Trustees of the late Marquess of Tweeddale, and others [Sales Catalogue]
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Christie, Manson & Woods
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1970 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
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87 |
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Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a fragment from a manuscript of Husain Va'iz Kashifi's Anvar-i Suhaili with two miniatures, Mughal, c. 1565-70 ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a young lady reclining against a cushion, signed by Mu'in Musawwir, Isfahan, dated 1678 ; Persian lacquer from the 17th to the 19th century, including a mirror-case, style of Shafi Abbasi, late seventeenth century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including a berat of Sultan Ahmed III, Constantinople, dated 1715 ; a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold, Qairawan, tenth century ; Arabic, Persian and South East Asian manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Ahmad al-Tabrizi, Qajar, dated 1860 ; al-Sami fi al-Asami (encyclopaedia of names) in contemporary brown morocco binding, Konya, dated 1419 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1987 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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88 |
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Catalogue of Oriental miniatures and manuscripts: comprising Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century ; Qajar lacquer pen-boxes and a mirror case, Persian, nineteenth century ; calligraphy and illumination from the 15th to the 19th century, including an illuminated firman of Sultan Mustafa II, Ottoman dated 1695 ; an early vellum Qur'an leaf, probably Qairouan, eighth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indian, Ethiopian and Armenian manuscripts and printed books, including a large Qur'an written by Sulayman Ratib, Ottoman, dated 1850 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including an illustration to the Razmnama, c. 1598 ; a gouache depicting Colonel Polier, after a Tilly Kettle original, Faizabad or Lucknow, c. 1780 ; Rajput miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including a durbar scene of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, c. 1850 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1984 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
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89 |
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Catalogue of Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books: comprising Mughal and Deccani miniatures form the 17th to 19th century, including Prince Sulaiman Shikoh listening to an ascetic attributed to Chitarman, Mughal, c. 1660 ; a noblewoman playing chaupur, Lucknow, c. 1790 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th century, including three illustrations to the Bhagavata purana, Hindur, c. 1850-60 ; a portrait of a nobleman, Baha (Jammu), c. 1700 ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century ; calligraphy from the 15th to the 19th century, including two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Jami, Herat, late fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 19th century, including a miniature Qur'an, Turkey, dated 1412 ; an illuminated Qur'an section, Mamluk, Egypt, c. 1400 ; a Persian manuscript partly written in eastern kufic, Persia, dated 1203 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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90 |
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Catalogue of Western, Hebrew and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of Lord Piers Brudenell-Bruce, Sri Ram Gopal, Christopher Lorimer, Esq., Colonel Joseph W. Weld, O.B.E., T.D, and others [Sales Catalogue]
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Christie, Manson & Woods
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1970 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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91 |
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Collection Jean Soustiel [Sales Catalogue]
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Drouot-Richelieu (Firm)
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1999 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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92 |
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An eye for opulence: art of the Ottoman Empire [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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2012 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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93 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund : calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to the 16th century, including an album of calligraphy, Persia, sixteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 14th to the 19th century, including a leaf from the Demotte Shahnama, Tabriz, c. 1330-50 ; a man tossed from his horse, style of Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, early seventeenth century ; Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Baburnama, Mughal, c. 1590 ; a leaf from an album executed for Shah Jahan during his princehood, Mughal, early seventeenth century ; three illustrations to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1616 ; two female attendants preparing a bed-chamber, Aurangabad, c. 1650-60 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th century, including Qutb ab-Din Mahmud Ibn Mas'ud Al-Shirazi's Durrat at-Taj li Ghurrat ad-Dubaj, written for Iskandar Sultan, Shiraz, c. 1410 ; Sheykhi's Khusrau wa Shirin, illustrated with four miniatures, Ottoman, late fifteenth century ; Rumi's Masnavi, illustrated with twenty-nine miniatures, Herat, dated 1580 ; Armenian manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th century, including David 'The invincible's' philosophical works and commentaries on Aristotle, illustrated with one miniature of the author, Etchmiadzin, seventeenth century [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1981 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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94 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Mughal, Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including eight Mughal and Deccani miniatures from an album collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps ; an illustration to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1616 ; seven ragamala illustrations, Deccan, first quarter of the eighteenth century ; a hunting expedition, Jaipur, c. 1840 ; a prince and his entourage out hunting crocodile, Uniara, c. 1760 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including Radha and Krishna playing backgammon, Basohli, c. 1760 ; an illustration to the Rasika priya, Kangra, c. 1820-25 ; a portrait of Maharaja Kirat Singh, Kashtwar, c. 1700 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata purana, Basohli, c. 1760-65 ; a collection of Chinese drawings on paper and rice paper, including an album of twenty coloured drawings of exotic butterflies and insects, Canton, 1805-10 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 10th to 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to 19th century ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror-cases, including a pen-box signed by Lutf-Ali, Qajar, dated 1858 ; Arabic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and printed books, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Ottoman, early sixteenth century ; the Dufferin and Ava Shahnama, illustrated with fifty-eight miniatures in the Timurid style, Shiraz, dated 1436 and 1437 ; Min Kalam Ali Ibn al-Husain (Sayings of Ali), Arabic manuscript written in alternating lines of gold and black naskhi script, Persia, c. 1520-30 ; Tashrih Mansuri (a treatise on the anatomy of the human body) illustrated with six diagrams, Persia, seventeenth century [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1982 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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95 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Company school and Kalighat watercolours, including an album by Manu Lal, Calcutta, c. 1798 ; an album of portraits of tribesman, Punjab Plains, c. 1848 ; Mughal, Deccani, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures, including Krishna revered by the gopis, Murshidabad, c. 1780 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata Purana, Bilaspur, c. 1700, Ragamala illustrations, Kangra, c. 1780-90 ; coloured drawings on rice-paper, China, nineteenth century ; Persian miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a double-page frontispiece attributed to Shaykhzadeh, Tabriz, c. 1520 ; a miniature of Iskandar comforting the dying Dara, signed by Mu'in Musavvir, Isfahan, c. 1648-49 ; four early Ottoman bindings formerly in the collection of F.R. Martin, Turkey, second half of fifteenth century ; Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an fragment written in muhaqqaq script in alternating blue and gold, Mamluk or Ottoman, fifteenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an section, probably Tabriz, dated 1483 ; Nizami's Khamsa, illustrated with twenty-six miniatures in the commercial Turkman style, dated 1486-88 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1983 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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96 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a miniature depicting the Prophet Muhammad riding a camel outside the walls of the Ka'ba, Mughal, c.1600 ; a portrait of a nobleman out riding a dapple-grey stallion, Deccan, early eighteenth century ; a portrait of Jahangir by Muhammad Husain, Deccan, c.1680 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a portrait of Mian Mukan Dev of Jasrota, Basohli, c.1760-1770 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including two miniatures from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, India, Sultanate, mid-fifteenth century ; two illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c.1570 ; calligraphy from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustrated firman of Sultan Selim II, Constantinople, dated 1566 ; two large calligraphic panels, signed by Umaral al-Wasif Sivasi, Constantinople, dated 1845 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 19th century, including two vellum Qur'an leaves written in kufic script in gold, the great Mosque, Qairawan, tenth century ; Qur'ans from the 12th to the 19th century, including a small Qur'an section, Seljuk, Anatolia, twelfth century ; an illustrated Qur'an section (Juz XI), Sultanate, fifteenth century ; an illustrated Qur'an on gold-sprinkled paper, India, eighteenth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 20th century, including Ibn Sina's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), Book III, Juz I, North Africa, thirteenth century ; Ubaidallah bin Mas'ud Sharh Wiqayat al-Riwayah fi Masa'il al-Hidayah, contemporary brown morocco binding, Ottoman, third quarter of fifteenth-century ; Hatifi's Timurnama with three full-page miniatures, Ottoman, dated 1499 ; Jami's Yusuf va Zulaykha with eight miniatures, Bukhara, mid-sixteenth century, and later Nizami's Khamsa with four double-page miniatures in the style of Mirza Ali, Mashhad, dated 1576-77 ; a collection of Arabic manuscripts on medicine from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Majusi's Kamil al-Sina'ah al-Tibiyyah, Persia dated 1434 and 1437 ; Abu Ali Yahya Ibn'Issa bin Jazalah's Taqwim al-Abdan, Ottoman, dated 1585 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1985 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
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97 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: calligraphy and illumination from the 9th to 20th centuries, including a large vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic script, North Africa, ninth/tenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to 20th centuries, including an illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, Shiraz, c.1570-80 ; a crouching youth restrains a furiously bucking ram, signed by Reza-i Abbasi, Isfahan, dated 1623 ; seven illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi (The life of the Prophet), commissioned by Sultan Murad III, Constantinople, c.1594 ; Qur'ans from the 12th to 20th centuries, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Persia or Turkey, dated 1333 ; a Timurid Qur'an, probably Shiraz, early fifteenth century ; an Ottoman Qur'an section written in muhaqqaq script in alternative blue and gold, Turkey, fifteenth century ; a large Qur'an with an opening double page of fine illumination, Ottoman, c.1590 ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by Abdul-Karim Muhammad Sadiq al-Husaini al-Yazdi, Qajar, dated 1849 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ethiopic, Armenian, and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to 20th centuries, including Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr with five miniatures, Shiraz, dated 1441 ; Jami's Haft Awrang with thirteen miniatures by a pupil of Bihzad, Herat dated 1505 ; the Four Gospels, illustrated Armenian manuscript on vellum copied and illuminated by Yovanes of Khizan, Khizan (S.E. Turkey), dated 1620/21 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 18th to 19th centuries ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to 19th centuries, including a miniature from the Akhbar-i Barmakiyan, Mughal, late sixteenth century ; an illustration to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c.1570 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1985 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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98 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Company school watercolours, including two formerly in the 'Fraser' album, Delhi and Punjab c.1810-20 ; Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including an illustration to the Hamza-nama, Mughal, c.1570 ; a prince on a hunting expedition, executed in the style of Sur Das, Mughal, c.1600 ; Rajput miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including six ragamala illustrations executed by Ruknuddin, Bikaner, c.1680 ; two ragmala illustrations, Basohli, c.1690-95 ; twenty-one Indian and Persian miniatures formerly in the Sevadjian collection, including two mullahs standing in discussion, Deccan, possibly Bijapur, second quarter of 17th century ; a bird perched on a rock, signed by Mu'in, dated 1685 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures, including a master wrestler throwing a younger competitor, signed by Abdallah, Ottoman, c.1610 ; a biographical treatise containing thirty-two portraits of the sultans of Turkey, Ottoman, 19th century ; a European oil painting of a Turkish lady by a north European artist working in Europe or Istanbul, first half of 17th century ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated berat of Sultan Mustafa IV, Constantinople, dated 1807 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 8th to the 16th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf written in kufic in gold, Qairawan, 10th century ; Qur'ans from the 14th to the 19th century, including a Qur'an copied by Hafiz Usman, Ottoman, dated 1671 ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including al-Mawardi's Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah, Alexandria, dated 1281 ; Firdausi's Shahnama with twenty-two miniatures, Turkman, c.1500 ; Hafiz's Divan with eleven miniatures, Khurasan, perhaps Mashhad, dated 1586 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1986 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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99 |
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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: Mughal and Deccani miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting a royal elephant walking across a field, attributable to Mihr Chand or Bahadur Singh, Lucknow or Faizabad, c.1765-70 ; a miniature depicting Najm ad-Din Ali Khan watching a nautch, signed by Kalyan Das, Mughal, c.1750 ; a miniature depicting Yusuf and Zulaykha on a garden terrace, signed by Faizullah, provincial Mughal, Oudh, c.1765 ; an illustrated leaf from a poetical manuscript depicting a poet riding a mule, Mughal, c.1600 ; a portrait of the court musician Ali Khan Karori, signed by Mansur, Mughal, c.1600 ; Company school drawings from the 19th century, including the Henry Pitman album of one hundred and fifty-seven portraits and scenes, western India, c.1848 ; Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting Raja Savant Singh and Bani Thani as Radha and Krishna, attributable to Nihal Chand, Kishangarh, c.1750 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century, including a miniature depicting a prince on horseback shooting at a mark during an archery contest, signed by Shaykh Abbasi, Isfahan, dated 1654 ; three illustrated leaves from a manuscript of Siyar-i Nabi, commissioned for Sultan Murad III, Constantinople, c.1594 ; a portrait of a youthful courtier, by Levni, Constantinople, c.1720-50 ; two portraits of Shah Abbas I and his ambassador Mehdi Quli Beg, from the collection of emperor Rudolph II, Esaye le Gillon, Prague, dated 1605 ; Qur'an leaves on vellum and paper from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an leaf written in naskhi in gold, Egypt, c.1313 ; Qur'ans from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Abbasid, twelfth century ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and South East Asian manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century, including Nizami's Khusrau and Shirin, with four miniatures signed by Dhannu, Dharm Das, Bhawani Das, and Makra, Mughal, c.1590 [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1987 |
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Number of Holdings: 1.
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100 |
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Fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books: comprising Mughal, Deccani and central Indian miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including lovers languishing on a terrace after a night of revelry, Lucknow, c. 1750 ; minstrels performing before Humayun, Deccan, c. 1660 ; two Ragamala illustrations, Malwa, c. 1660-80 ; Rajasthani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of Maharao Bhao Singh seated with a courtier, Bundi, c. 1670-80 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including an illustration to a Tantric Devi series, Basohli, c. 1690-1700 ; a Ragamala illustration, Nurpur, c. 1700 ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an leaf, Mamluk, second half of fourteenth century, and a calligraphic miniature of a lion, Ottoman/Mughal, late sixteenth and seventeenth century ; three Islamic bookcovers including one signed by Amin, South Arabia, fifteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures and paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, including a portrait of a Turkish courtesan, attributed to Vanmour, Turkey, c. 1690-1730; a series of 199 watercolour drawings of Turkish costumes, Turkey, last quarter of eighteenth century ; nineteenth-century Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including mirror-cases and pen-boxes ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 15th to the 19th century, including Firdausi's Yusuf wa Zulaykha, illustrated with nine miniatures, Shiraz or Baghdad, c. 1450 ; an illuminated Qur'an, North Africa, sixteenth century. [Sales Catalogue]
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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1981 |
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Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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