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Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
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Koran Page
Single leaf from a Koran manuscript on paper in gold leaf, tempera and ink. Black text in Arabic with interlinear red text in Persian. The script is Nasta?liq. Beautiful ...
Date: India, circa 1790
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Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Date: Unknown, circa 1850
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Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Date: Unknown circa 1850
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Five Indo / Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Five Indo/Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Each miniature a...
Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1850
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Miniature of St Barbara, on vellum from a neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Large miniature of St Barbara, a roman martyr, with her emblem, on the verso of a 15th century leaf from a Book of Hours, Northern Netherlands, 19th cent. Close f...
Date: Flanders ca.1860
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Miniature showing St. Catherine of Alexandria. Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Miniature showing St. Catherine of Alexandria, who defied the emperor and his wisemen in philosophy, he sentenced her to death through breaking her bones with a h...
Date: Flanders ca.1860
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Miniature of St. John, the Baptist. Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Miniature of St. John, the Baptist, with a lamb on a book, wearing a cloth of camelhair of the heremite in the desert, not so here though with a luscious backgrou...
Date: Flanders ca.1860
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Large miniature of Mother Maria and Christ from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO : Large miniature of Mother Maria and Christ, with a book on the bench, Mary is sitting on, teaching her child to read, most certainly a holy book.(90x63mm.) in an ...
Date: Flanders ca.1860
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Miniature of Crusifiction.
Large miniature of crusification, with in top title Deus in adiutorium meum in tente. Most likely made by the English miniaturist C.W.Wing, who also created around 1850 c...
Date: England c.1860
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