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Leaf from Book of Hours

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.

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.

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Book on Navigation

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Textile

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

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.

The Greedy Dog

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

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

The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

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

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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)

The Adoration of the Magi

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Green Tara

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

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.

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

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

The Siesta

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.

Silk Animal Carpet

Grapevine in the Wind

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

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Procession or Pardon at Perros-Guirec

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

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill

Buddhist Deities

A Stallion

The Devil Speaks (Mahna No Varua Ino) (recto); Women Washing Clothes (verso)

Graven en gravinnen van Holland

Carpet

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

Peonies

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Portrait of the Great Master Yeongwoldang Eungjin

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.

Fragment van een muurschildering

A Young Prince on Horseback

Enclosed Valley

Thanka with Buddha

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Belt clasp

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

Jean Hey, known as the Master of Moulins, was a leading painter in 15th-century France. Here, he captured the moment the archangel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would give birth to a son. The painting once formed the right side of an altarpiece, with the left side depicting Mary’s own Immaculate Conception and a central section, now lost, featuring the enthroned Virgin and Child.

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

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

Gibbons in a Landscape

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Irises

A woman and child sit on an ornate gold, curving throne in front of a shimmering gold background in this vertical painting. Two winged angels in roundels at the upper corners and the woman and child all have peach-colored skin with a gray cast. The woman tips her head toward the child, to our right. She has almond-shaped eyes, a long, straight nose, and her small lips are closed. She looks into the distance over the child’s head. She wears a scarlet-red mantle that covers her head and drapes over her shoulders and body. The azure-blue of her dress beneath is visible at her throat and over one knee. The child sitting on her knee is as tall as a toddler but has adult proportions in his face and body. He holds up his right hand, on our left, and raises the first two fingers. He holds a red scroll in his other hand. He wears a forest-green robe over a salmon-pink garment. The clothing of both the woman and child have geometric gold lines indicating folds in the drapery, and both have gold halos. The child’s halo is marked with three red arms to create a cross above and to the sides of his head. The woman rests her feet on a low stool in front of the opening of the elaborately carved, two-tier throne that nearly encircles the pair. The winged angels in the upper corners have gold halos, brown hair, jeweled, gold garments, and each holds an orb and scepter.

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.

The Emperor's Carpet

Camellia by Water

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

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.

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

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

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

Puppies

Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)

Birds and Flowers

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

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

慈眼大師像

Lakeside Retreat

Manjushri

Birds and Flowers

Standing Saint

Christ Carrying the Cross

Bernat Martorell was one of the greatest painters in Catalonia, Spain, during the first half of the 15th century. Here, he rendered a frequently depicted episode from the popular legend of Saint George, in which the model Christian knight saves a town and rescues a beautiful princess. George’s halo and armor and the scaly dragon are richly modeled with raised stucco decoration.

Phoenixes and Paulownia

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.

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