A Prophet on a Prayer Rug (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 104 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi
Ottoman
Prophet Preaching in a Mosque (painting, verso; text, recto), folio 5 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi
Ottoman
Nuh (Noah) in the Ark (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 24 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi
Ottoman
Mahan confronted by demons finds his horse transformed into a seven-headed dragon (text recto; painting verso of folio 224), painting from a manuscript of the Khamsa by Nizami
Persian
Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (text above bleed-through of red candlestick designs, right page), 1928 - 2014
Otto Piene
Dinar of Al-Walid, r. 705 - 715
Al-Walid I
The White Horse Tavern, 1791 - 1824
Théodore Géricault
Le Stryge, 1821 - 1868
Charles Meryon
Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mayence, 1471 - 1528
Albrecht Dürer
Duchess of Devonshire and Her Child, 1762 - 1842
George Keating
A Peep into the Cave of Jacobinism, 1757 - 1815
James Gillray
Calling, 1943 - 1987
Christopher Wilmarth
Two East Indian Birds, 1648 - 1727
Johannes Bronckhorst
Cupids Forging Arrows, 1682 - 1739
Louis Desplaces
A Dune Landscape with Figures in a Storm, 1595 - 1661
Pieter de Molijn
Sketchbook: Partial Manuscript for "Otto Piene: Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik 1960-76", 1928 - 2014
Otto Piene
Krishna's Manifest Vision through Sound (Kavitt), from a Rasikapriya series
Indian
Fragment of Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Letter
Assyrian
Manuscript of the Munsha’at (Letters) by Sharaf Munshi
Persian
Flyleaf with two small notes (notes recto, blank verso of folio 1), from a manuscript of the Munsha’at by Sharaf Munshi
Persian