Sayings of `Ali Regarding Eloquence and Proper Speech, folio from an album

Ink and colors on paper; leather and gold binding

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)

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

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

Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with red chalk; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and pounced with red chalk (recto)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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

Watercolor on paper

Top: watercolor on blue Eastern paper, burnished (recto); Brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: watercolor and graphite on wove paper (recto); Black counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso)

Top: red and brown inks over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk; Bottom: brown ink over graphite on white coated wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Brown ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper