A Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Manuscripts, Including Also Some Turkish and Arabic, Presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York by Alexander Smith Cochran

this collection of Oriental manuscripts - twenty of them Persian, two Eastern Turkish, and two Arabic - was presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in March, 1913, by Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran, of Yonkers, New York. All of the codices are handsomely illuminated and adorned with beautiful miniatures, the entire collection containing much that is of interest to students of art, literature, and history. A number of the manuscripts are in certain respects, unique.