Bibliography
Key:
JHL: John Hay Library
B: Brown University Library
H: Harvard University, Fine Arts Library
MMA: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library
MSJ: loaned from Prof. Martha Joukowsky
The Anderson Galleries, 489 Park Avenue at 59th Street, New York. "An interesting and colorful selection of decorative art of the Near East with a few pieces from European sources gathered in the course of his travels by Kirkor Minassian of New York and Paris. To be sold by his order Monday afternoon, April 6, 1925 at 2:30." (JHL)
The Anderson Galleries, New York. "The Oriental Collection of Kirkor Minassian of New York and Paris: Coptic tapestries, Persian pottery, Antique rugs and rare textiles, Roman glass from Syria, Indo-Persian and Rajput miniature paintings, Persian and Indian Jewelry, etc. To be sold by his order Saturday afternoon, November 5, 1927." (JHL)
Art News. Vol. 32, No. 35. June 2, 1934, p. 8. (JHL)
Barrett, Douglas. Studies in Indian Sculpture and Painting. London: Pindar Press, 1990. (MMA)
Beach, M.C. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Clark Arts Institute, 1978. (B)
Beach, M.C. The Imperial Image. Paintings from the Mughal Court. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1981. (B)
Birds in an Indian Garden. 19 Illustrations from the Impey Collection. London: Colnaghi Oriental, Michael Goedhuis, Ltd. 1984. (JHL)
Brown, Percy. Indian Painting under the Mughals: AD 1550 - AD 1750. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1981. (H)
Bulletin of the Wadsworth Athaneum, Hartford, CT. Vol. III, No. 3. July 1925, p. 25-28. (JHL)
Das, Asok Kumar. Dawn of Mughal Painting. Bombay: Vakils, Feffer, & Simmons, 1982. (H)
Dehejia, Vidya. "The Very Idea of a Portrait." Ars Orientalis. vol. 28, 1998. p.41.
Diba, Layla S., ed. Royal Persian Paintings from the Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925. New York: I.B. Taurus Press, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998. (JHL)
Du Ry, Carel J. Art of Islam. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1970. (MSJ)
Farooqi. Anis. Arts of India and Persia. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing. 1979. (H)
Grube. Ernst. The Classical Style in Indian Painting. Germany: Edizioni Oriens 1968. (JHL)
Hajek, Lubor. Indian Miniatures of the Mogul School. London: Spring Books, 1960.
Hopkins. Waldo. "An Indo-Persian forerunner of Audubon." American Collector, June 1940. p. 5. (JHL)
Indian Painting: Mughal and Rajput and a Sultanate Manuscript. London: Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 1978. (H)
Kossak, Steven. Indian Court Painting: 16th - 19th centuries. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. (H)
Levy, Reuben, translator. Epic of the Kings. The Shahnama of Ferdowsi. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. (B)
Losty, Jeremiah P. The Art of the Book in India. London: The British Library. 1982. (H)
Lowry, G.D. and Beach, M.C. An Annotated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1988. (B)
Mehta, Nanalal Chamanalal. Studies in Indian Painting. A Survey of some New Material Ranging from the Commencement of the VIIth century AD to 1870 AD. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala & Sons, 1926. (H)
Morgan Memorial. Loan Exhibition of Near Eastern Art. Hartford, CT. May 1925. (JHL)
Moti, Chandra. Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India. 1949. (H)
The New York Herald, Paris. Sat. March 31, 1906. p. 5. (JHL)
Pages of Perfection: Islamic Paintings and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, ARCH Foundation, 1995. (H)
Pope, Arthur U. An Introduction to Persian Art Since the 7th Century AD. London: P. Davies, 1930. (B)
Sharma, O.P. Indian Miniature Painting: Exhibition Compiled from the Collection of the National Museum, New, Delhi. Brussels: Bibliotheque Royale Albert ler, October 1974. (H)
Sims, Eleanor. "The Illustrated Manuscripts of Firdausi's Shahnama Commissioned by Princes of the House of Timur." Ars Orientalis, vol. 22, 1993. p. 43.
Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Courts. New York: Rizzoli Publications, 1992. (H)
Soustiel, Jean. Miniatures Orientales de l'Indie: les Ecoles et Leurs Styles. Paris: Librairie Legueltel, 1973. (JHL)
Swietochowslii, Marie L. Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330's and 1340's. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1994. (MMA)
Tandan, R.K. Indian Miniature Painting. 16th through the 19th Centuries. Bangalore, India: Natesan Publishers, 1982. (H)
Titley, Norah. Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Arts of Turkey and India. London: British Library Board, 1983. (B)
Welch, Stuart Carey. Persian Painting. New York: George Brazillier, Publishers, 1976. (B)
Stuart Carey. Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501--1576. Cambridge, MA: The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979. (B)
The Arts of Persia. R.W. Ferrier, ed. London: Yale University Press, 1989. (H)
Tabbaa, Yassir. "The Transformation of Arabic Writing: Part I, Qur'anic Calligraphy." Ars Orientalis, vol. 21, 1991, p. 121.