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Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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).

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.

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

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.

Textile

The top and bottom panels of this illuminated finispiece from Walters manuscript W.578 are inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script. The Qur'anic verses in the central panel are written in Square Kufic.

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

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

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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

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.

The Greedy Dog

Carpet

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

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.

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

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

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

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

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

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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

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

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

A Stallion

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

Grapevine in the Wind

Leaf from Book of Hours

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Textile Fragment

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.

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Mt. Fuji through Pines

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

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

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Grapevine and Squirrels

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

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

Initial "P" (Primum quidem)

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

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

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.

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Scholar admiring plum blossoms

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

A Young Prince on Horseback

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Peonies

Silk Animal Carpet

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

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum

Silk Velvet Fragment with Tiger-Stripe and 'Cintamani' Design

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.

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

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

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Lakeside Retreat

"Lotto" Carpet

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Beroemde blikken op de Oostelijke hoofdstad

Heron on a Willow Branch

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

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)

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

The Eighth Plague: Locusts (Exodus 10:12-15)

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Fragment van een muurschildering

Birds and Flowers

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

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

Buddhist Deities

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

Silk Kashan Carpet

Palampore

Portrait of Momonoi Naoaki

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Five Medallion Carpet