Manuscripts
Hebrew Script, attached bifolio
Dimensions
50 x 31.3 cm (19 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
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Text (recto and verso), folio 39 from a Manuscript of a Majmu`a of Persian Texts
Unknown Artist, 16th-17th century
Ink on paper
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Text folio with a decorated sarlawh (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 7), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam
Unknown Artist, 1845
Ink, colors, and gold on paper
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Folio from a Qur'an (Sura 3: 136 -140) mounted on an album page
Unknown Artist, 17th-18th century
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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Section from Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing)
Unknown Artist, 7th century
Handscroll; ink on paper.
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The Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Iskandarnama) by Nizami
Unknown Artist, 1584
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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Layla and Majnun in a Tent (painting recto; text verso of folio 205), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di
Unknown Artist, Late 16th century
Ink, colors, and gold on paper
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Manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi (Forty Hadith) by Baha’ al-Din Muhammad al-Amuli (Shaykh Baha’i)
Unknown Artist, 1658
Ink, colors, and gold on paper; gilt-stamped leather binding
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Manuscript of the Bustan (Orchard) by Sa`di, written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50)
Bishndas, 1531-1532 and c. 1620
Cover: leather, stamped and gilt Painting with text: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Folio from an Illustrated Manuscript of a Compendium of Knowledge (Jung), made for Shah Sulayman
Unknown Artist, c. 1669-1670
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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Folio from an Illustrated Manuscript of a Compendium of Knowledge (Jung), made for Shah Sulayman
Unknown Artist, c. 1669-1670
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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Folio from a manuscript of Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa 'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Men's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi: Treasurer, money changer, courier and jeweler; tent, pavilion, drum, and banner; lion, onager, wolf, sheep, partridge and hawk
Muhammad ibn Badr Jajarmi, 1341
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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Illustrated Buddhist Text (in Khmer script): Scene of the Buddha-To-Be Fainting from Hunger
Unknown Artist, 19th century
Individual leaf from a palm-leaf manuscript; ink, color, and gold on palm leaf
19th centuryThai