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

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Black and red inks, watercolor, and gold on off-white paper (recto); Watercolor on off-white wove paper, toned orange-pink wash (verso)

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)

Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Graphite on beige wove paper (recto); Top: relief print with watercolor and gold on tan wove tracing paper (verso); Bottom: rawhide, handcut (verso)

Black ink, watercolor, and graphite on beige wove paper, burnished (recto); Light brown ink on off-white wove paper; pricked (verso)

Paper; leather binding

Top: blue counterproof on off-white Eastern paper (recto); Middle: watercolor and colored inks on off-white paper (recto); Middle: pink ink and graphite (verso); Bottom: graphite and pink ink on beige wove paper (recto); Red counterproof and watercolor on blue Eastern paper (verso)

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

Graphite on two sheets of off-white wove paper; joined and mounted overall to pieced and burnished wove paper