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Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Abd al-Vahhab (Persian, active about 1516), 1522

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms

Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), 1525

Single Leaf with Scenes from the Last Supper

Simon Bening (Flemish, 1483–1561), 1525

The Annunciation (Matins, Office of the Virgin): Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), 1525

Adjoining Leaves from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms and King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), 1525

Leaf from a Book of Hours: King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), 1525

Historiated Initial (E) Excised from the Colonna Missal: The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Apollonio de' Bonfratelli (Italian), 1527

Frontispiece Miniature from the Manuscript of a Poem by Guillaume Crétin: Debate Between Two Women

Master of Francis I (French), 1537

Picnic in the Mountains; Single Page Illustration

Muhammadi (Iranian), 1550

Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)

Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian), 1575

Aulad Tied to a Plane Tree, from a Shahnama by Firdausi

Sadiqi Bek (Iranian, 1533–1609), 1575

Youth Seated by a Willow; Single Page Illustration

Muhammad Yusuf (Iranian), 1600

Qur'an cover

Islamic, 1600

Youth Holding a Pomegranate; Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian), 1600

Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian), 1600

On the Renewal of the Alliance between France and the Swiss (Sur le Renouvellement de l'Alliance entre France et les Suisses)

Jacques Bailly, I, 1601

Angels bring food to Jesus in the wilderness (folio 55 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Muhammad Sharif (Indian, active c. 1600), 1602

The Magi Follow the Star (folio 34 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Payag (Indian), 1602

Black and White Bird Perched on a Shrub

Shafi' Abbasi (Iranian), 1651

Book with lacquer covers

Islamic, 1700

Qur'an

Islamic, 1811