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Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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.

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.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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.

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

Book on Navigation

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

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.

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

The Greedy Dog

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Textile

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Carpet

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

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

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

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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.

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Leaf from Book of Hours

A Stallion

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Silk Kashan Carpet

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

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Textile Fragment

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

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

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Grapevine in the Wind

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

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Mt. Fuji through Pines

Tile Panel

"Lotto" Carpet

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

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

Five Medallion Carpet

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

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

慈眼大師像

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

Peonies

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

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)

Silk Animal Carpet

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

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.

Lakeside Retreat

Mandala Base

Heron on a Willow Branch

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

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

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Sparrows on Blossoming Plum

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

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.

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

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

Manjushri

Chrysanthemums by the Water

Jar with Dragon and Clouds Design

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga nihen

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Peahen and hibiscus

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

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

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

Farmer Returning Home in Autumn

Fragment textiel

The Four Seasons

Birds and Flowers

Schetsen van Hokusai - deel 5

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen)

Fragment textiel

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