Manuscripts

2,367 artworks

Garden Scene (painting, verso), Text (recto), folio 78 from the Bustan by Sa`di, Written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50) and Reworked for Emperor Jahangir (1605-27)

Shaykh Zada, 1531

Garden Scene (painting, verso), Text (recto), folio 78 from the Bustan by Sa`di, Written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50) and Reworked for Emperor Jahangir (1605-27)

Scribe: Mir ‘Ali al-Husayni, 1531

Introduction (recto and verso), folio 3 from a Manuscript of the Bustan by Sa`di, Written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50)

Scribe: Mir ‘Ali al-Husayni, 1531

Chapter Ten and Colophon (recto), folio 138 from a Manuscript of the Bustan by Sa`di, Written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50)

Scribe: Mir ‘Ali al-Husayni, 1531

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Two Youths Under a Tree (painting, verso; calligraphy, recto), folio from a manuscript

Attributed to Mir `Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

Calligraphy by Mir `Ali Haravi with paintings by an unknown artist (recto and verso), folio from an Anthology of Poetry

Mir 'Ali Haravi, 1533

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

Master of Francis I, 1537

Picnic in the Mountains; Single Page Illustration

Muhammadi, 1550

Manuscript of the Forty Hadiths by Jami

Scribe: Sultan Ahmad Haravi, 1552

Hadiths with Persian Paraphrase (recto and verso), folio 5 from a Manuscript of the Forty Hadiths by Jami

Scribe: Sultan Ahmad Haravi, 1552

Ownership Stamp (recto), folio 3 from a Manuscript of the Forty Hadiths by Jami

Scribe: Sultan Ahmad Haravi, 1552

Solomon and his Court, folio from a manuscript

Mirza ‘Ali, 1555

Mahiya frees Zambur, Beheads his sleeping guards, and suspends Gharrad in his stead (painting, verso); Nine Lines of Nasta‘liq Script (text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Hamzanama

Attributed to Mir Sayyid ‘Ali, 1565

New Style of Linked Verse (Renga shinshiki)

Dōchō, 1568

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

Sadiqi Bek, 1575

Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)

Riza-yi Abbasi (Iranian), 1575

Painting ,verso; Text, recto of folio 45, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Manuscript of the Kitab-i-Shah u Geda (The Shah and the Beggar) by Yahya Beg

Author: Yahya Beg, 1580

Painting, verso; Text, recto of folio 52, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Manuscript of the Kitab-i-Shah u Geda (The Shah and the Beggar) by Yahya Beg

Author: Yahya Beg, 1580