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Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript

Ismail bin Ibrahim Bosnavi (calligrapher, d. 1748), first half of the 18th century

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18th centuryOttoman

Episodes from the Story of Mahuy (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Text (recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist, 1561-1562

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Colophon (text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Fineleaf Fumitory Folio from a manuscript of Khawass al-ashjar (De materia medica) by Dioscorides

Unknown Artist, 13th century

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13th centuryPersian

Story of the Expedition of the Army of Rum to Iran (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist, c. 1480

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15th centuryPersian

Double page: The Trial by Fire of Siyavush (painting, verso; text, recto), right-hand side of a double-page painting from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist, 1575-1590

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Double page: The Trial by Fire of Siyavush (painting, verso; text, recto), left-hand side of a double-page painting from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist, 1575-1590

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The Constellation Cassiopeia (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from an Arabic manuscript of the Kitab Suwar al-Kawakib of al-Sufi

Unknown Artist, late 15th-early 16th century

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15th-16th centuryPersian

Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Makhsan al-Asrar) by Nizami

Unknown Artist, 1584

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Bahram Gur in the Sandalwood Pavilion, from the Haft paykar

Unknown Artist, 1584

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Kay Khusraw Reviews His Troops (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Story of Kay Khusraw Reviewing his Army, and Tus Leading the Iranians into Turan (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Court of Gayumars (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Praise for Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist, 1561-1562

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Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami

Unknown Artist, 1584

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Guruy Executes Siyavush (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Story of Farangis (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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Rustam and the Iranians Hunt in Afrasiyab’s Preserves (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

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