Verses About Humility from the Bustan by Sa'di, folio from an album

Brown ink and gold ruling lines on off-white wove paper (recto); Note: drawing mounted overall with colored paper borders (recto); Graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Black counterproof on off-white laid paper (recto); Colored inks and watercolor over black chalk on three sheets of off-white wove paper, mounted together (verso)

Top: light brown ink on off-white wove paper, burnished; Bottom: light green ink on off-white wove paper (recto)

Left: Brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk and charcoal; Middle: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked; Right: red ink on off-white modern laid paper (recto)

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Black ink on green- blue Eastern paper; pricked (recto); Black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; with gold and ink margin lines, pricked and selectively pounced with red chalk (verso)

Watercolor, black chalk and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Watercolor, silver and gold over graphite on off-white modern laid paper (verso)

Graphite and orange crayon (?) on cream modern laid paper (recto); Watercolor and charcoal on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; leather binding with gilded tooling

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper