Illuminated text (recto); Calligraphic Composition (verso), folio from an album of calligraphy, left-hand side of a bifolio, fl. 1453-1519
Sultan Ali Mashhadi
Illuminated text (verso); Owner's Seal (recto), folio from an album of calligraphy, right-hand side of a bifolio, fl. 1453-1519
Sultan Ali Mashhadi
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
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
(tame) to leave to love, 1918 - 1986
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)
Annunciation, 1471 - 1528
Albrecht Dürer