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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

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.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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

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.

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 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.

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Book on Navigation

The Greedy Dog

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Velvet and Silk Carpet

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

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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

A Stallion

Carpet

Textile

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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

Silk Kashan Carpet

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

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

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Textile Fragment

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

Tile Panel

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

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.

Silk Animal Carpet

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

Floral Tent Panel

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.

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Leaf from Book of Hours

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain

慈眼大師像

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

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.

Flowers and Goldfish

Mt. Fuji through Pines

Garden Gathering

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize Stallion

Chrysanthemums by the Water

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Peahen and hibiscus

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Grapevine in the Wind

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

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

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

"Lotto" Carpet

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

Peonies

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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

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

Initial "P" (Primum quidem)

Pink and Rose

Thanka with Buddha

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Camellia by Water

Mandala Base

Five Medallion Carpet

Beroemde blikken op de Oostelijke hoofdstad

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

Lakeside Retreat

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

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Monkeys in a Cherry Tree