Download or read book 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 written by A. V. Williams Jackson and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1914-02-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 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. This publication provides insight into the authors of these texts and unpacks the painstakingly rendered imagery in these beautiful manuscript illustrations.