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‎AL'BOM Indijskich i Persidskich Miniatjur XVI-XVIII VV - ALBUM of Indian and Persian Miniatures of the XVI-XVIIIth Centuries.‎

‎Moscow, Vostocnoj Literatury, 1962. Portfolio containing 111 loose mounted plates (complete) of which 11 in colour, with a booklet of 81, (1) pages in Russian containing descriptions of the plates + a smaller (8vo) booklet with short descriptions of same in English. Folio. Portfolio of olive green cloth with decorative blind stamping, titles in Cyrillic on front. Originally compiled in Iran in the middle of the 18th century by Muhammad-Hadi, Muhammad-Baqir and Muhammad-Sadiq, and acquired in 1912 from the Russian Musuem to which it had been given in 1910 as a personal gift of Emperor Nicolai II. It has been housed since in the permanent collection of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in Leningrad (formally known as the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of the Peoples of Asia). It contains reproductions of the works of miniature painters and calligraphers Abu-I-Hasan Nadir as-Zaman, Ali-Quli-Bek Jabbadar, Bayak, Govardhan, Gul-Muhammad Haddji Muhammad, Manohar Das, Mansur, Mir Kalam, Muhammad-Baqir Muhammad-Hadi, Muhammad-Riza-yi Hindi, Muhammad-Sadiq, Muhammad Sultani, Muhammad-Zaman, Nanha, Visnu Das, Mir Imad al-Hasani. Presentation copy by the Library of the Institute of Peoples of Asia, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, to my father, Anton Gerits (here written as Geritz), dated October 29, 1964. ‎

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