Struchnos Plants (painting with text, recto and verso), from a De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Arab

Krishna Approaches the Cowherds at Their Forest Encampment (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Indian

The Temptation of Shakyamuni (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Nepalese

Layla and Majnun at School (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Persian

Text Sheet, from the portfolio "Figurines. The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Spectacle: Victory Over the Sun", 1890 - 1941

El Lissitzky

The Parting of Jonathan and David, 1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

Reclining Panther Holding a Muntjac Deer, 1796 - 1875

Antoine Louis Barye

A Shepherd from a Nativity, fragment of a fresco removed from Santa Maria inter Angelos, Spoleto, active c. 1300

Master of Le Palazze

Two folios of Persian poetry in safina format

Persian

Two folios of Persian poetry in safina format

Persian

Manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ottoman

Manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan (Selections from the Bustan by Sa`di)

The illuminated sarlawh; notes and seals (notes and seals recto; sarlawh verso of folio 1), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di

Inspection notes and poems in later hands (text recto; later notes verso of folio 24), from a manuscript of the Muntakhab-i Bustan by Sa`di

Folio with extension of the doublure’s support (blue paper with embossed patterns recto; blank verso of folio 1), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ottoman

Frontispiece with a decorated sarlawh (blank recto; text verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ottoman

Folio with an illumination (text recto; illumination verso of folio 6), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ottoman

Text folio with a decorated sarlawh (blank recto; sarlawh verso of folio 7), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

Ottoman

Folio with extension of the doublure support (blank recto; blue paper with embossed patterns verso of folio 72), from a manuscript of the Ruba‘yyat by ‘Umar Khayyam

A Study for Christ for "The Elevation of the Cross", 1577 - 1640

Peter Paul Rubens