Saʿdi in A Hindu Temple (painting recto; text verso of folio 144), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di
Persian
Layla and Majnun in a Tent (painting recto; text verso of folio 205), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di
Persian
Untitled (blank with color transfers, left page); Untitled (text and bleed-through of following page, right page), 1928 - 2014
Otto Piene
Section from a Buddhist Cosmology (Nihon koku narabini Shumi shoten zu) with text copied by Monk Ryūi, active late 14th-early 15th c.
Monk Ryūyū
Set of Eight Scrolls Containing the Text of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa Lianhua Jing), the First Scroll with Illustrated Frontispiece
Chinese
Krishna Subdues the Serpent King Kaliya (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series
Indian
Lakshmana and Sita (text, recto; painting, verso); folio from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama (Persian translation of the Mahabharata)
Attributed to Fazl
Fragment of Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Letter
Assyrian
Illustrated Manuscript of Prayers
Ottoman
Manuscript of prayers
Persian
Manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi (Forty Hadith) by Baha’ al-Din Muhammad al-Amuli (Shaykh Baha’i)
Persian
The right half of the illuminated frontispiece (illuminated sarlawh verso, blank recto of folio 3), from a manuscript of prayers
Persian
First flyleaf (blank recto; blank verso of folio 1), folio from a manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi by Shaykh Baha’i
Persian
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
Persian
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
Persian
Stag with Leg Raised, 1796 - 1875
Antoine Louis Barye
Eagle with Outstretched Wings and Open Beak, 1796 - 1875
Antoine Louis Barye
Manuscript of the Divan of Hasan Dihlavi
Persian
The Murder of Iraj by his Brothers Tur and Sam (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi, right-hand side of a bifolio
Persian
Bahram Gur Fights the Horned Wolf (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Ilkhanid Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Persian