Explore Collection

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

The left half of the illuminated frontispiece (text with illuminated margin recto, text verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 5), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 49), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with illuminated headings (illuminated headings recto; text verso of folio 50), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with an illuminated heading (text recto; illuminated heading verso of folio 58), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with an illuminated heading (illuminated heading recto; text verso of folio 59), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with colophon (text recto; colophon verso of folio 121), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with an illuminated heading (illuminated heading recto; text verso of folio 122), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 124), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with Persian translation in red (text in red recto; text verso of folio 125), from a manuscript of Prayers

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

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

First flyleaf (blank recto; blank verso of folio 1), folio from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with an illuminated sarlawh (blank recto; text verso of folio 3), from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio with gold drawings on the margin (text recto; text verso of folio 4), from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Text folio (text recto; text verso of folio 291), from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio containing the colophon in naskh script (colophon recto; text verso of folio 292), from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Folio with rulings; quatrain in a later hand (blank recto; text verso of folio 293), from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i

Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Illustrated Manuscript of the Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Unknown Artist, late 16th century

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

16th-17th centuryPersian