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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.

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Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

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.

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

The Emperor's Carpet

Silk Animal Carpet

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.

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

Tile Panel

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

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

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Mandala Base

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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

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

Carpet

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

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

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 Emperor Jahangir

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.

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Garden Gathering

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.

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.

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

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

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

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

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

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Grapevine in the Wind

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Leaf from Book of Hours

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Peacocks and Bamboo

Green Tara

Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Coffre des pierreries de Louis XIV

Fire Screen

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).

Ivy Lane

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.

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

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

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Uccello — the Battle of San Romano

The Adoration of the Magi

Birds and Flowers

Ema (Votive Painting) of a Chinese Lion and Peony Tree by Flowing Water

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

Gibbons in a Landscape

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

Phoenixes and Paulownia

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Birds and Flowers

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

"Lotto" Carpet

The Greedy Dog

A Young Prince on Horseback

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

A Basket of Flowers

Hunting Scene

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

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.

Silk Kashan Carpet

Floral Tent Panel

Peahen and hibiscus

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Peonies

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.

screen by Fukae Roshu "Narrow ivy road". Six-fold screen, color on gold leafed paper, Important Cultural Property

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

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

A Stallion

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Buddhist Deities

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.

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers