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The Infant Jesus Presented to the Church

Miniature painting from a Book of Hours, c. 1522
Origin: Paris, France
Published by Germain Hardouyn
Ink, paint, and gold on vellum
Leaf: 5-3/4 x 3 inches

16210
$1250.

The Annunciation

Miniature painting from a Book of Hours, c. 1522
Origin: Paris, France.
Published by Germain Hardouyn
Ink, paint, and gold on vellum
Leaf: 5-3/4 x 3 inches

16203
$1400.

Islamic Prayerbook Leaf

Origin: Turkey
Black script with gold borders.
Sheet: 6-1/8 x 3-3/4 inches

10762
$45.

Saint Mary Magdalene

Miniature painting from a Book of Hours, c. 1460-80
Origin: Flanders, probably Bruges
Painting on vellum
Leaf: 4-3/16 x 3 inches

26023
$3200.

God the Father Crowning Mary

Miniature painting from a Book of Hours, c. 1470
Ink, color, and liquid gold on vellum.
Origin: France. Gothic script.
Painting within decorated border with four lines of text below.
Seventeen lines of text and illuminated one-line initials on verso
Leaf: 7 x 4-3/4 inches

26025
$3600.

Indian Miniature Painting

Gouache on paper
Kashmiri origin
19th century
Toned and soiled
2-5/8 x 4-1/8 inches

19416
$175.

Indian Miniature Painting

Two seated figures
Gouache and gold on paper
Sheet: 3-3/8 x 5-3/8 inches

19379
$325.

Indian Miniature Painting

Matsya (Fish incarnation of Vishnu)
Gouache on paper
Sheet: 4 x 7 inches

19451
$250.

Bhagavad Gita Leaf

Black Sanskrit script with red, blue, and gold
All have varying degrees of staining and discoloration
Sheet: 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches

2-58
$65.

Indian Miniature Painting

Five Hindu deities in "OM"
Gouache and gold on paper
Sheet: 3 x 5-1/4 inches

19384
$350.

Manuscript Leaf

Indian. Bihari/Kufic script
Text in black with gold initials. 
Medallions in gold, blue, and orange. 
Late 14th century
Sheet: 5-15/16 x 4-3/8 inches

18630
$225.

Indian Miniature Paintings in Text

Gouache painting in Sanskrit text on both sides
19th century 
Sheet: 6-1/2 x 6 inches

25233 (front)
$275.

25233 (verso)

Antiphonal Romanum

Leaf from Juxta Breviarum ex Decreto Sacro-Sancti
Woodcut music in black and red, Latin text
Publisher: Joannem Baptistam Verdussen 
Published in Antwerp, 1732
Similar verso
Sheet: 14-1/4 x 9-1/8 inches

9-124
$75

Koran Leaf

Indian.
Text in black, border in gold.
Sheet: 7-11/16 x 4-3/4 inches

15208
$60.

Koran Leaf

Indian. 17th century
Arabic text
Very fine script in black, bold script in black and gold,
border and disc in gold and blue
Sheet: 5-15/16 x 3-1/2 inches

16077
$65.

Manuscript Leaf

Arabic text on pink paper
Black calligraphy with red, blue, and gold borders
Sheet: 8-1/4 x 5 inches

5-84
$20

Manuscript Leaf

Arabic text on yellow paper
Black calligraphy with red, blue, and gold borders
Sheet: 8-1/4 x 5 inches

5-84
$20

Manuscript Leaf

Arabic text on indigo paper
Black calligraphy with red, blue, and gold borders
Sheet: 8-1/4 x 5 inches

5-84
$20

Kammavaca

Buddhist monastic ceremony and higher orders text
Theravada School, Burma.  Circa 19th c.
Includes 14 leaves and
2 decorative wooden covers

6-3/4 x 20 inches
[20834-20849]
Price available upon request

Kammavaca
(view of decorative wooden cover)

Tibetan Calligraphy
c. 1900.
Sheet: 3-1/8 x 16-7/8 inches.
[24449]
SOLD

Manuscript leaf. 
Sanskrit, c. 18th Century. 
Black script with red borders on 
burnished paper. 
4-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches.
27352
SOLD

Tibetan Prayerbook Leaf
19th Century. 
Dark blue dyed paper
with calligraphy in gold. 
22 x 7 inches.
26790
$85

Kalapasutra Leaf

Indian. 16th c.
Sanskrit text in black with red borders.
Sheet: 4-15/16 x 10-5/16 inches

16042
$85.

Persian Manuscript Leaf

Text in black, lines in gold
Diagonal commentary.
Sheet: 9-1/2 x 6-5/8 inches

1448
$42.

Islamic Prayerbook Leaf

North African
Script in black and red
Sheet: 4-3/4 x 4 inches

10759
$40.

Manuscript Leaf

Koran
Turkish origin. Date: 1820-1840.
Ink and gold leaf on paper
Similar on verso
Sheet: 6-1/8 x 4-15/15 inches

26346
$45.

Koran Leaf

Nashki script.  Arabic text.
Pakistan, late 18th c.
Gold lines between the text, small medallions and borderlines.
Sheet:7-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches.

3-58
$55.

Delail-ul-Kharat Leaf

Arabic text in black, Persian translation below in red. 
Border in gold and light blue. Commentary in margin. Text by Mohammed Azeem for Shah Naway Khah, c. 1690.
Sheet: 7-5/8 x 4-11/16 inches

6-128
$60.

Turkish Manuscript Leaf

Arabic text, Nashki Script
Text in black with gold and red
Sheet: 8-1/16 x 5-1/4 inches

6-37
$32.

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