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_________ Mahmed the Conqueror and his Time. Trans. Ralph Mannheim. Ed. William C. Hickman. Princeton, 1978.

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_________ Musuman Painting, XII-XVII Century (London, 1929).

_________ Peintures des manuscrits arabes, persanes et turcs de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1914-20).

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_________ Persian Painting. (Geneva, 1961).

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Juvaini, 'Ata-Malik. The History of the World-Conqueror. Trans. John A. Boyle. 2 vols. Manchester, 1958.

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Lentz, Thomas W. and Glenn D. Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision. Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Los Angeles and Washington, 1989.

Lillys, William. Persian Miniatures; the Story of Rustam. (Tuttle, 1958).

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Martin, F.R. Die Persichen Prachtstoffe im Schlosse (Stockholm, 1901).

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Migeon, Gaston, Manuel d'Art musulman, Arts plastiques et industriels. (Paris, 1927).

Minovi, M., B.W. Robinson, J.V.S. Wilkinson and E. Blochet. The Chester Library: A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures. Volume II (Dublin, 1960).

Moghadam, M.E. and Y. Armajani. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Garrett Collection of Persian, Turkish and Indic Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library. Princeton Oriental Texts, v. VI (Princeton, 1939).

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_________ The Iranian National Epic or the Shahnamah. Tr. Leonid T. Bogdanov. Repr. Philadelphia, 1979.

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_________ "The Dunimarle Shahnama: A Timurid Manuscript from Mazandaran," Aus der Welt der Islamischen Kunst (Berlin, 1959).

_________ Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles (London, 1967).

_________ "Two Manuscripts of the 'Shahnama' in the Royal Library Windsor Castle, II" The Burlington Magazine, Vol.1ll (1968) 73-78.

_________ "Two Manuscripts of the 'Shahnama' in the Royal Library Windsor Castle., II", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 111 (1968) 433-38.

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_________ Les Peintures des manuscrits Timurides (Paris, 1954).

_________ Les Peintures des Manuscrits de Shah 'Abbas Ier à la fin des Safavis (Paris, 1964)

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_________ Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. Première Partie. Egypte. Fascicule troisième. Le Caire. Mémoires publiés par les Membres de ]a Mission Archéologique Française au Caire 19. Paris, 1900.

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