Illuminated margin and interlinear gilt text folio (illumination and gilt recto; text verso of folio 241), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
Persian
Text folio with the colophon of the sixth section (text recto; blank verso of folio 294), from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
Persian
Krishna Wins the Daughter of Jambavan, an illustration from the Bhagavata Purana
Indian
Reign of Kay Kavus (recto, verso), illuminated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi
Indian
Wolf Hunt with Traps and Arquebus, 1523 - 1605
Jan van der Straet
Artist's documents: Breath exhibition, Studio for the First Amendment, May 1-29, 1982, 1943 - 1987
Christopher Wilmarth
Women Stretching Cloth, 1760 - 1849
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke (Ichikawa Danjūrō 2nd) and Nakamura Takesaburō as an Oiran, 1664 - 1729
Torii Kiyonobu
Story of Devadatta, from Chapter 12 of a Printed Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō); Kasuga Edition, from Kōfuku-ji, Nara
Japanese
Inserted email printout, 1928 - 2014
Otto Piene
Album of Ornamental Detail: Drawings, Stencils and Photographs, 1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
Scholar’s Studio: Rakushisha no aki (Autumn at the Rakushisha), 1882 - 1944
Hatta Kōyō 八田高容
Krishna and Balarama at a Wrestling Match (painting, recto), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Tahmina Comes into Rustam's Chamber, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi
Persian
The courtesans Segawa and Matsundo of the Matsuba House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
The courtesans Hitomoto and Tagasode of the Daimonji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
"Universal Gateway," Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing)
Chinese
Madonna and Child on the Crescent Moon, 1565 - 1629