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This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

Book on Navigation

Walters manuscript W.619 is an illuminated manuscript containing 2 works by Sa"di (died 691 AH/AD 1292): the Gulistan (Rose garden) and the Bustan (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH/AD 1572 by Muhammad Riza al-Tabrizi in Iran. The text of the Gulistan appears in the main area, while that of the Bustan is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta"liq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black.

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

Textile

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

The Greedy Dog

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

Five Medallion Carpet

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Leaf from Book of Hours

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Fragment van een muurschildering

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

A Stallion

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Silk Animal Carpet

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

In the margins are depicted hybrid angel-musicians, a bear-trainer and musicians, apes trapping a bird, apes at school, a nude man at the far left, and an ape kneeling before a doctor with a urinal.

Carpet

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

A Young Prince on Horseback

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

"Lotto" Carpet

Thanka with Buddha

Silk Kashan Carpet

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Belt clasp

Depicts Zen monk Huike (慧可) thinking. By painter Shi Ke (Chinese: 石恪), from Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period to Northern Song (about 10th century)

Peonies

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Textile Fragment

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

Saint in Red Cloak

Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Scholar admiring plum blossoms

Mandala Base

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum

Accordion

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

Palampore

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

Buddhist Deities

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

The Four Seasons

Krishna Fluting

The Emperor's Carpet

Lakeside Retreat

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Bell (Lai Zhong)

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Center table

Heron on a Willow Branch

Grapevine in the Wind

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Dagger-axe