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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.

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.

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.

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

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

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

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

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

The Greedy Dog

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.

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

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.

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

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.

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Carpet

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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.

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

Velvet and Silk Carpet

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Leaf from Book of Hours

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Mt. Fuji through Pines

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

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

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

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

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

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Grapevine in the Wind

Initial "P" (Primum quidem)

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

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

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

A Stallion

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Silk Animal Carpet

"Lotto" Carpet

Textile Fragment

A Young Prince on Horseback

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Peonies

Silk Kashan Carpet

Thanka with Buddha

Five Medallion Carpet

Birds and Flowers

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

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.

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden 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

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum

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

Beroemde blikken op de Oostelijke hoofdstad

Madonna and Child

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

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

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

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

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)

The Emperor's Carpet

Duck in Flight

A winged angel with arms crossed kneels across from a young woman sitting and holding a book, both under an archway in a paneled room in this vertical painting. They both have pale, yellow-toned skin, blond hair, and flat, gold halos. They also have golden brown eyes, long, straight noses, smooth cheeks, and their pale, pink lips are closed. To our right, the woman sits in a throne-like chair with her body facing our left. Her head tilts down, and she looks toward the angel under lowered lids. Her hair is pulled back under the neck of the lapis-blue cloak she wears over a crimson-red dress. The dress and cloak are trimmed with gold, and a there is a gold starburst on the cloak over her left shoulder, closer to us. She holds her other hand up near that shoulder with her fingertips brushing her chest. With her other hand, she holds open the pages of a small book in her lap, so her fingers overlap some of the words. The entire Latin inscription would read, “virgo concipiet et pariet filium et vocabitur nomen eius emmanuel butirum et mel come dit ut fiat reprobare.” A slender, bone-white column separates her from the angel across from her, along the left edge of the painting. The angel has curly, shoulder-length hair and wears a robe with a gold, floral pattern against a burgundy-red background. Long, golden wings emerge from the shoulder blades and extend off the side of the composition. An open archway just beyond the angel is filled with streaks of flax yellow and burnt orange, possibly representing flames. Some of the walls in the room around the pair are pale olive green and other areas are darker spruce green. There are bands of coral-pink molding and inset panels of patterned mosaics. The flat ceiling of the space immediately over the pair is decorated with checkerboard panels in navy blue, hunter green, brown, and brick red. Gold lines create a ray coming from the ceiling toward the woman. At the back of the space, beyond the column separating the woman and angel, the room extends into an alcove with an arched hallway painted with gold stars against a midnight-blue background. Double doors open at the back of the alcove onto a room with a pale-yellow curtain with a mesh-like trim. We see the pair as if through a stone archway that lines the top and sides of the composition. The upper corners are filled with leafy decorations, as if carved into the stone.

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

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

Floral Tent Panel

Lakeside Retreat

Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano

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

Mandala Base

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

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)

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

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

Saint in Red Cloak