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1964
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Chinese school, 20th century, a scroll picture of figures in an extensive landscape, watercolour on a printed base, image approx.340cm. by 32cm., boxe
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£200 - £300
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£520
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1966
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Two Qur'an leaves, North West Africa or Islamic Spain, 12th-14th century, in Maghribi script on parchment, 16. 5cm. by 14.5cm. each, framed, (2). Prov
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£200 - £300
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£600
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1967
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Hilali: Sifat al-Ashiqin ( Persian poetry), Iran or Central Asia, 16th century, illuminated manuscript in nasta 'liq script on gold-sprinkled paper, M
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£400 - £600
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£900
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1968
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Qanuncha ( on medicine/pharmacopia, a commentary based on Avicenna), Arabic manuscript on paper, colophon naming scribe as Abdallah al- Harawi, Iran o
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£300 - £400
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£2,900
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1970
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Five Qur'an leaves, North West Africa or Islamic Spain, 12th- 14th century, in Maghribi script on parchment, each 20.4cm. by 20.8cm., (2). 40
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£500 - £700
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£1,150
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1971
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Two Islamic religious manuscripts: Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Zad al-Mad, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, copied by Ibn Muhammad Hadi H
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£150 - £250
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£420
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1972
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A concertina album of six pages of Persian couplets in nasta'liq calligraphy on gold-sprinkled paper, dated 1297/1880, 23.2cm. by 14cm., red leather b
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£100 - £150
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£200
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1973
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One volume of the Sahih (Hadith) of Al-Bukhari, illuminated Arabic manuscript on Italian paper watermarked with tré lune, 21cm. by 15.8cm., red leathe
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£400 - £600
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£280
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1974
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Firdawsi: Shahnama ( part), a large illustrated Persian manuscript on paper with seven miniatures, Kashmir, 19th century, ( possibly dated 1295/1878),
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£300 - £500
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£780
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1975
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A Qur'an, illuminated Arabic manuscript in naskhi script on gold-sprinkled paper, copied by Ibn Nur al-Din Sultan Muhammad, Iran, Safavid, dated 1085/
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£600 - £800
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£780
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1976
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Ibn Babawayh (Abu Ja' far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi): a work on Hadith and jurisprudence, probably Kitab Man La Yahduruhu al- Faqih, lar
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£600 - £800
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£700
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1977
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Qur'an, illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper, colophon stating copied by Husayn al-Hili, a pupil of Zuhdi, Turkey, Ottoman, dated 1219/1804, 17cm. b
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£200 - £300
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£550
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1978
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Tafsir al-Quran, large profusely illuminated Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper with five fully illuminated double pages, India, circa 15th-16th c
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£1,000 - £1,500
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£2,600
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1979
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Qur'an section ( Juz' 25), illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper, Egypt or Levant, Mamluk, circa 1468-95, 24.8cm. by 16.5cm. contemporary leather cov
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£400 - £600
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£550
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1980
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The adventures and battles of Sam: tales based on the Shanama, Kashmir, 19th century, large illustrated and illuminated Persian manuscript on paper, 1
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£800 - £1,000
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£500
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1982
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Five Islamic manuscripts on paper, mostly on religious subjects, Near East, Turkey, Iran and India, circa 19th century, sizes 16.4cm. by 10.9cm. to 25
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£150 - £250
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£100
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1983
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Qur'an, illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper with gold-sprinkled margins, penultimate leaf with commission statement of Sha Sulayman Safavi ( reigne
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£1,500 - £2,000
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£3,800
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1984
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Three illuminated Persian manuscripts of poetry, various dates, largest 17.3cm. by 10.6cm. Provenance: one formerly in the collection of Hagop Kevorki
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£100 - £150
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£1,100
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1985
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A colour printed facsimile copy of the famous 16th century Qur'an manuscript copied by Ruzbihan Muhammad, in the collection of the Chester Beatty Libr
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£50 - £70
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£300
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1987
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An Ottoman firman bearing the tughra of Sultan Mahmud I ( r. 1730-54), eight lines of Diwani script in black ink on paper, dated 1144/1731-32, 53cm. b
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£100 - £150
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£680
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1988
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A finely illuminated unfinished manuscript, Qajar, 19th century, seven leaves with silver and gold text areas left blank, each leaf 28.5cm. by 17.5cm.
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£200 - £300
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£200
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1989
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A nasta'liq quatrain signed Bimiqdar Husaini, Persia, 18th century, album page, manuscript on paper, four lines of diagonal text in black nasta'liq sc
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£800 - £1,200
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£700
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1990
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Portrait of a European child, with attribution to the artist Abu'l Hasan, Iran, Qajar, dated 1281/1864-65, gouache on paper, portrait 22.2cm. by 17.8c
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£300 - £500
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£700
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1992
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Ibn Sina: Al-Qanun fi'l- Tibb ( Avicenna's Canon of Medicine ), parts of Book III, Near East, circa 12th-14th century, with later additions: Arabic ma
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£800 - £1,200
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£70,000
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