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Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

Shah Mahmud, 1502-1503

Text; ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, with black and gold binding

16th centuryPersian

Manuscripts

Notes and Stamps (recto), Frontispiece, Introduction (verso), folio 2 from a Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

Shah Mahmud, 1502-1503

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryPersian

Manuscripts

Frontispiece, Introduction (recto), Opening Chapter (verso), folio 3 from a Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

Shah Mahmud, 1502-1503

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryPersian

Manuscripts

Text (recto and verso), folio 50 from a Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

Shah Mahmud, 1502-1503

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryPersian

Manuscripts

Closing Chapter and Colophon (recto), folio 174 from a Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

Shah Mahmud, 1502-1503

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

16th centuryPersian

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Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 3: 53 - 63 (recto), Sura 3: 63 - 72 (verso)

Unknown Artist, 12th century

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

12th centuryPersian

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A Lady at Her Toilet with Two Maids

Rodu, 1678

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryIndian

Manuscripts

Treatise on Archery, with Draft of an English Translation Inserted [also 'facsimile of surimono by Sadanobu inserted in book' (accession card)]

Unknown Artist, 17th-19th century

Manuscript; ink on paper

17th-19th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Buddhist Sutra: Myobŏp Yŏnhwa Kyŏng (Chinese, Miaofa Lianhua Jing; Sanskrit, Saddharmapundarika Sutra; English, Lotus Sutra), Chapter 1, Preface

Kim Saeng, 14th-16th century

Accordion-fold book with glued spine; gold ink on white paper

14th-16th centuryKorean

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Buddhist Sutra: Pulsŏl Chŏngsaeng'wang Inyŏn Kyŏng (Chinese, Fuoshuo Dingshengwang Yinyuan Jing), Section from Chapter 3

Unknown Artist, 1354

Section of a handscroll; silver ink on indigo-blue paper

14th centuryKorean

Manuscripts

Calligraphic Section of "Korean Acrobats Performing on Horseback"

Unknown Artist, Mid to Late Edo period, 18th-19th century

Handscroll fragment, unmounted: one of two (text); ink on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Daihannya-haramitta-kyō (Mahaprajnaparamita sutra), No. 267

Unknown Artist, 7th-8th century

Handscroll converted into an "orihon" (folded book); ink on paper with red marks

7th-8th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Illustrated Story about late-17th-century Nouveaux Riches (Ogon suidaijin sakazuki by Tamenaga Shunsui II, 1823-1886), first of two manuscript volumes

Yamada Kunijirō (Ichiyūsai II; Kuniteru), Late Edo period, circa 1853

Thread-bound book (manuscript for printed version); ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Illustrated Story about late-17th-century Nouveaux Riches (Ogon suidaijin sakazuki by Tamenaga Shunsui II, 1823-1886), first of two manuscript volumes

Yamada Kunijirō (Ichiyūsai II; Kuniteru), Late Edo period, circa 1853

Thread-bound book (manuscript for printed version); ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Illustrated Story about late-17th-century Nouveaux Riches (Ogon suidaijin sakazuki by Tamenaga Shunsui II, 1823-1886), second of two manuscript volumes

Yamada Kunijirō (Ichiyūsai II; Kuniteru), Late Edo period, circa 1853

Thread-bound book (manuscript for printed version); ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Copy of an Imperial Edict in Chinese and Mongolian Scripts

Unknown Artist

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Chinese

Manuscripts

Section from Chapter 4 of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing)

Unknown Artist, 12th-14th century

Section of an unmounted handscroll; ink on paper

12th-14th centuryChinese

Manuscripts

Illustrated Scroll of Secrets on the Art of Spearhandling from the Saburi School (Saburi-ryū sōjutsu densho)

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1682

Handscroll; ink and color on decorated paper with designs in gold

17th centuryJapanese

Manuscripts

Illustrated Manuscript on Elephants

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Two-sided, horizontal, accordion-fold manuscript; ink and color on paper; with lacquered covers

19th centuryThai

Manuscripts

Illustrated Manuscript on Divination

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Two-sided horizontal accordion-fold manuscript; ink and color on paper

19th centuryThai

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