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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Dustcover is cropped and faded. Actual book is great. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The extensive collection of Persian manuscripts and miniatures in the John Rylands Library though of remarkable quality and richness has hitherto remained almost unknown a situation this cata- logue will do much to remedy. The greater part of the collection was acquired by Mrs John Rylands in 1901. the year after the Library was formally opened when she purchased from the Bibliotheca Lindesiana the collection of Eastern and Western manuscripts brought together by the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres. The considerable proportion of these manu- scripts had come from the library of the great nineteenth-century orientalist Nathaniel Bland. who had in turn acquired many of them from the collection made by the eminent French orientalist Baron Antoine Isaac Sylvestre de Sacy and others from the collection of Sir Gore Ouselely Bt. This present catalogue running to over 1500 entries will do much to illuminate the study of Persian paintings for those interested in the subject. The main branches of fifteenth-century Timurid and sixteenth/seventeenth-century Safawid paint- ing are well represented and many of the manu- scripts would rank with any in the major national collections. There is in addition a quantity of material of importance in the comparatively new study of Persian-style painting in pre-Mughal India. (MP)