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Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Frontispiece with a decorated sarlawh (blank recto; text verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 3), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio with an illumination (text recto; illumination verso of folio 6), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with a decorated sarlawh (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 7), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 8), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 10), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 11), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 17), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 18), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 59), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 60), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 68), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with the colophon (text recto; blank verso of folio 69), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio with extension of the doublure support (blank recto; blue paper with embossed patterns verso of folio 72), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Manuscript of the Divan of Hasan Dihlavi

Unknown Artist, c. 1520-1550

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; tooled and gilded leather binding

16th centuryPersian

Kalam al-Muluk by Mirza Taqi Aliabadi Mazandarani and his Divan

Unknown Artist, dated 1838

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

Manuscript of the Mathnavi-i Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Unknown Artist, 1615

Ink, colors, and gold on paper; gilt-stamped leather binding

17th centuryPersian

First flyleaf (short note recto; blank verso of folio 1), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Unknown Artist, 1615

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

17th centuryPersian