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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.

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).

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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.

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.

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.

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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.

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

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

Textile

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

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.

Textile Fragment

Coffre des pierreries de Louis XIV

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

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Five Medallion Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Silk Animal Carpet

Knife Sheath

A Stallion

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Silk Kashan Carpet

Leaf from Book of Hours

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Floral Tent Panel

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Velvet and Silk Carpet

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

"Lotto" Carpet

Center table

Mandala Base

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Cape

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Cabinet

Birds and Flowers

Rosewater ewer

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.

Belt clasp

Siermes

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Table Fountain

Length of velvet

Grapevine in the Wind

Accordion

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Gedicht op de zilveren bruiloft van Ludolph Simon de With en Maria de Wit, 15 augustus 1771

Carpet

Schetsen van Hokusai - deel 5

Lakeside Retreat

Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga nihen

Saint in Red Cloak

Processional cross

Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

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

A Young Prince on Horseback

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi)

Lontslotmusket met vuursteenslot uit latere periode

Dagger-axe

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Peacocks and Bamboo

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.

Phoenixes and Paulownia

The Greedy Dog

Fire Screen

Guitar

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Birds and Flowers

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Ewer