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'The Dervish from Faryab Crosses the River on his Rug'

Author: Attributed to Habiballah

Date: c. AH 1008-1016 / AD 1600-1608

Publication Date: c. AH 1008-1016 / AD 1600-1608

Publication Place: Isfahan (Iran)

Subject: Safavids — Pigments

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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'A Giant Fish Rescues Abu Ubayda and his Men from Dying of Starvation'

Date: c. AH 829 / AD 1425

Publication Date: c. AH 829 / AD 1425

Publication Place: Herat

Subject: Timurids — Pigments

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar of Jajarmi

Author: Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din JajarmiIran1340s

Date: AH 741 / AD 1341

Publication Date: AH 741 / AD 1341

Publication Place: Attributed to Iran, Isfahan

Subject: Ilkhanids — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Khusrau Catches Sight of Shirin Bathing"

Author: Shaikh ZadaAH 916-957 / AD 1510-1550

Date: AH 931 / AD 1524–25

Publication Date: AH 931 / AD 1524–25

Publication Place: Herat

Subject: Safavids — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Qur’an leaf

Date: Hegira 100-200 / AD 700-800

Publication Date: Hegira 100-200 / AD 700-800

Publication Place: Near East or Arabian Peninsula

Subject: Abbasid — Hijazi script on parchment

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Design for the Water Clock of the Peacocks"

Author: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari1136, Northern Mesopotamia - 1206, Northern Mesopotamia

Date: AH 715 / AD 1315

Publication Date: AH 715 / AD 1315

Publication Place: Syria or Iraq

Subject: Artuqids — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Qur’an fragment

Date: 12th century AD

Publication Date: 12th century AD

Publication Place: Iran or Iraq

Subject: Likely Seljuq — Ink and gold on paper. Calligraphic Persian/Easternkuficof five lines per page.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of al-Sufi

Author: `Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi903, Rey, Iran - 986, Shiraz, Iran

Date: AH late 9th century /AD late 15th century

Publication Date: AH late 9th century /AD late 15th century

Publication Place: Attributed to Iran

Subject: Timurids — Ink and gold on paper; leather binding

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Qur’an leaf.

Date: Hegira 8th–9th centuries / AD 14th–15th centuries.

Publication Date: Hegira 8th–9th centuries / AD 14th–15th centuries.

Publication Place: Probably Egypt.

Subject: Mamluk — Paper, ink; calligraphy.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Official document regarding the connection of Beirut–Damascus railway line to Beirut Port

Date: 1919

Publication Date: 1919

Publication Place: Lebanon

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Letter of Sultan Mehmet V to Emperor Karl I

Date: 9 February 1917

Publication Date: 9 February 1917

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Divan-ıAli Şir Nevai (Social Gathering for Entertainment)

Date: AH 943/AD 1536–1537

Publication Date: AH 943/AD 1536–1537

Subject: Shaybanids — Finished (aharli) paper, ink, gilding, leather binding

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Document regarding slavery and piracy

Author: Ahmed Pacha Bey

Date: 1863

Publication Date: 1863

Publication Place: Palais du Bardo

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"The Beaker Water Clock" from al-Jazari's "Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices"

Date: AH Safar 755 / AD February 1354

Publication Date: AH Safar 755 / AD February 1354

Publication Place: Probably Cairo

Subject: Mamluks — Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Report on the behaviour of Rustam Pasha

Date: 1870s

Publication Date: 1870s

Publication Place: Lebanon

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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The 1861 constitution

Author: Mohamed Sadok Bey

Date: 1861

Publication Date: 1861

Publication Place: Palais du Bardo

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Ratification document of the Congress of Vienna (29 September 1814 – 9 June 1815)

Date: 1815

Publication Date: 1815

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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"Amr has the Infidels Thrown into the Sea"

Author: Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad DinIran - 1470, Iran

Date: AH ca. 881-891 / AD ca. 1476–86

Publication Date: AH ca. 881-891 / AD ca. 1476–86

Publication Place: Shiraz

Subject: Aq Qoyunlus — Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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List of the Christian captives of Italian origin, written by Mariano Stinca, a Neapolitan captive

Date: 1800

Publication Date: 1800

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

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Document attesting to the 'Telegraph Crisis' between Morocco and Great Britain

Author: Sultan Mulay al-Hasan I

Date: 1887

Publication Date: 1887

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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The Ka'ba in Mecca

Author: Artist: Émile Prisse d'Avennes1807 - 1879

Date: 1858–1859

Publication Date: 1858–1859

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Illuminated Qur’an manuscript

Author: Calligrapher Sayyid Muhammad Nouri

Date: Hegira 1286 / AD 1869

Publication Date: Hegira 1286 / AD 1869

Publication Place: Ottoman Turkey

Subject: European paper, black ink, pigments, gilding, pasteboard, leather

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Preparing Medicine from Honey, folio from a dispersed manuscript of an Arabic translation of theMateria Medicaof Dioscorides

Date: Dated Hegira 621 / AD 1224

Publication Date: Dated Hegira 621 / AD 1224

Publication Place: Possibly Baghdad, Iraq or Northern Jazira

Subject: Abbasid — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Treaty of Tetouan

Date: 6 February 1860

Publication Date: 6 February 1860

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Illuminated Qur’an manuscript

Author: Calligrapher Ali Shukri, known as Nadherzadeh

Date: Hegira 1284 / AD 1867

Publication Date: Hegira 1284 / AD 1867

Publication Place: Ottoman Turkey

Subject: European paper, black ink, pigments, gilding, pasteboard, leather

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Register listing 'all of the subjects of the Grand Duke of Tuscany [Italy] residing in Tunisia'

Date: 1850

Publication Date: 1850

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Passports that French ships were obliged to carry in order to be allowed to practice privateering

Date: 1799

Publication Date: 1799

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

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The Italian woman poet and peace activist of Armenian descent Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj (1855–1910), and a signed copy of her poem 'Peace'

Date: 3 September 1906

Publication Date: 3 September 1906

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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"Alexander Fights a Sea Battle"

Author: Dharmadas

Date: AH 1005-6 / AD 1597-8

Publication Date: AH 1005-6 / AD 1597-8

Publication Place: India

Subject: Mughals — Main support: Ink, opaque watercolour, gold on paper Margins: Gold on dyed paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Laylā visits Majnūn in the Wilderness

Date: Hegira c. 1070 / AD c. 1660

Publication Date: Hegira c. 1070 / AD c. 1660

Publication Place: India

Subject: Mughal — Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Elias and Khizr at the Fountain of Life"

Author: Cora Timken Burnett, Alpine, NJ

Date: Late 9th century AH / Late 15th century AD

Publication Date: Late 9th century AH / Late 15th century AD

Publication Place: Iran

Subject: Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Letter from the British residents of Gibraltar, congratulating Ahmed Bey for having closed the slave markets

Date: 1841

Publication Date: 1841

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

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Bifolium from the 'Nurse's Qur'an' (Mushaf al-Hadina)

Date: Hegira c. 410 / AD 1019–20

Publication Date: Hegira c. 410 / AD 1019–20

Publication Place: Probably Qayrawan, Tunisia

Subject: Zirid — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on parchment

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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'The Funeral of Isfandiyar'

Date: AH c. 730 / AD c. 1330

Publication Date: AH c. 730 / AD c. 1330

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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Record of the marriage between the Egyptian governmental official Paul Draneht Bey, aged 55, and the Italian Adele Casati, aged 19, celebrated in Oggebbio (Italy) in 1873

Date: 28 June 1873

Publication Date: 28 June 1873

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Document recording the purchase of steamships

Author: King Mulay Hasan I

Date: 1891

Publication Date: 1891

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Letter from Marshall Forteguerri, commander general of the navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, confirming the purchase of Tunisian slaves in Naples

Date: 1797

Publication Date: 1797

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

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Document on slavery

Author: Ahmed Pacha Bey

Date: 1842

Publication Date: 1842

Publication Place: Palais du Bardo

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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Italian police record of Romualdo Peppini (b. Turin 1863, d. Casablanca 1912), an Italian anarchist activist who immigrated to Morocco in 1901

Date: 1894–1901

Publication Date: 1894–1901

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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A folio from the Maqamat al-Hariri representing Jendoul (folio 61r)

Author: Yahya Ibn Mahmoud Al-Waseet

Date: AH 634 / AD 1236-1237

Publication Date: AH 634 / AD 1236-1237

Publication Place: Probably Baghdad

Subject: Abbassids — Parchment, watercolours; calligraphy, miniature painting.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Letter by the Prefect of Cosenza (Calabria, Italy) to the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade, referring to the exceedingly long working hours of women and children in the spinning factories

Date: Cosenza, 4 January 1896

Publication Date: Cosenza, 4 January 1896

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Healing my love, Sacred Land News

Author: Ibn Uthman Al-Miknasi

Date: Early 18th-century copy of 15th-century original

Publication Date: Early 18th-century copy of 15th-century original

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Shanameh by Fayradousi (Feasting of the Sassanid Emperor Anushirvan)

Date: Hegira 956 / AD 1549–1550

Publication Date: Hegira 956 / AD 1549–1550

Publication Place: Shiraz/Iran

Subject: Safavids (AH 907–1150 / AD 1501–1737) — Finished (aharli) paper, ink, gilding, leather binding

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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A British Ship Coral Fishing Near Algiers

Date: 26 October 1826

Publication Date: 26 October 1826

Subject: Pencil, pen and watercolour drawing

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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"The Castle Water Clock," from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Author: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Izmiri

Date: AH 715 / AD 1315

Publication Date: AH 715 / AD 1315

Publication Place: Eastern turkey or Syria

Subject: Mamluks — Ink, watercolor and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Invitation from Egyptian Sultan Fuad I to Joaquín Sorolla

Author: E. García Herrero

Date: 05 November 1918

Publication Date: 05 November 1918

Publication Place: Granada

Subject: Paper; ink

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Zubdat al-Tawarikh ('Cream of Histories').

Author: Calligrapher: Sayyid Loqman Aşuri; Painters: al-Sayyid Lutfi, Molla Kasım (Mulla Qasim) and Ustad Osman and their workshop.

Date: Hegira 993 / AD 1583.

Publication Date: Hegira 993 / AD 1583.

Publication Place: Istanbul, Turkey.

Subject: Ottoman — Delicate finished (aharlı) paper, ink, watercolour, gilding, the binding lacquered (Edirnekari technique).

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Qur΄an bifolium

Date: Hegira 9th century / AD 15th century

Publication Date: Hegira 9th century / AD 15th century

Publication Place: Turkey

Subject: Ottoman — Paper foil, pigments

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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'Mihr in a Bath House in Khwarazm'

Date: c. AH 947-957 / AD 1540-1550

Publication Date: c. AH 947-957 / AD 1540-1550

Publication Place: Shiraz (Iran)

Subject: Pigments

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"The Castle Water Clock" from al-Jazari's "Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices"

Date: AH Safar 755 / AD February 1354

Publication Date: AH Safar 755 / AD February 1354

Publication Place: Probably Cairo

Subject: Mamluks — Ink, watercolour and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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A Sinner’s Plea to God

Author: ascribed to Hiranandearly 17th century AD

Date: AH ca. 1012 / AD ca. 1604

Publication Date: AH ca. 1012 / AD ca. 1604

Publication Place: Agra, India

Subject: Mughals — opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Calligraphic Galleon

Author: 'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey

Date: AH 1180 / AD 1766–67

Publication Date: AH 1180 / AD 1766–67

Publication Place: Turkey

Subject: Ottomans — Ink and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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'Funeral Procession'

Date: AH 892 / AD 1486

Publication Date: AH 892 / AD 1486

Publication Place: Present-day Afghanistan, Herat

Subject: Opaque watercolour, silver, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Qur’an.

Author: Calligrapher: Sheikh Hamdullah (Hamd Allah, AH 840?–926? / AD 1437?–1520?).

Date: Hegira Rajab 899 / AD April 1494.

Publication Date: Hegira Rajab 899 / AD April 1494.

Publication Place: Istanbul, Turkey.

Subject: Ottoman — Finished (aharlı) paper, leather, ink, watercolour, gilding, tooling on the leather binding.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Firdausi's Parable of the Ship of Shi'ism"

Author: Attributed to Mirza 'Alica. 1525–75

Date: AH ca. 937-42 / AD ca. 1530-35

Publication Date: AH ca. 937-42 / AD ca. 1530-35

Publication Place: Tabriz

Subject: Safavids — Opaque watercolour, ink, silver, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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Monthly revenues deriving from the traffic of boats through the Suez Canal sent by the consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Port Said (Egypt) to the Commodities Exchange of Trieste

Date: September 1876

Publication Date: September 1876

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Maghrebirab’a.

Author: Calligrapher: Abu al-Hasan al-Marini.

Date: Hegira 745 / AD 1344.

Publication Date: Hegira 745 / AD 1344.

Publication Place: Maghreb.

Subject: Marinid — Black ink on gazelle parchment; binding of illuminated leather.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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The 'Al-Mubda' Mosque' and 'Laghayat Af Marrakchi'

Author: Speed by Mir ‘Abdullah Mir Ja’ Far Al-Husseini Tabrizi

Date: AH 1070 (AD 1659–60)

Publication Date: AH 1070 (AD 1659–60)

Publication Place: Iran or India

Subject: Safavid or Mughal — ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; leather binding with flap

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Letter from the Dey of Algiers, Muhammad Pasha, to Ferdinando IV of Bourbon, King of Naples, granting a two-month truce from corsairs’ attacks (in Arabic with Italian translation)

Date: Algiers, 12 March 1787

Publication Date: Algiers, 12 March 1787

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Poetic Academy that Dedicates to the Catholic Majesty of the Queen Mother Our Lady Dona Maria Ana of Austria The Literary Academy of Valencia with The Assumptions of the Siege and Torna of Buddha Celebrated…

Author: Unknown artist

Date: 1686

Publication Date: 1686

Publication Place: Valencia, Spain

Subject: Manuscript, paper, watercolour, pen and ink, colour applications and silk bookbinding

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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Trade agreement between the Sublime Porte and the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Annexed to the treaty, a booklet with the duties that the merchants from the Grand Duke of Tuscany had to pay in Turkey

Date: Constantinople, 7 June 1841

Publication Date: Constantinople, 7 June 1841

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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"Man's Fate or the Man Taking Refuge in a Well Inhabited by a Dragon"

Author: [Art market, India, until 1969]; Nasli M. Heeramaneck, New York (until 1971); Alice N. Heeramaneck, New York (until 1982)

Date: AH second quarter of the 10th century / AD second quarter 16th century

Publication Date: AH second quarter of the 10th century / AD second quarter 16th century

Publication Place: Gujarat

Subject: Muzaffarids — Ink and opaque watercolour on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Rustam Slaying the White Div

Author: Until 2008, private collection, Japan

Date: Hegira 983-993 / AD 1575-85

Publication Date: Hegira 983-993 / AD 1575-85

Publication Place: Iran, Shiraz

Subject: Safavid — Opaque watercolour and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Jonah and the Whale"

Author: [Armenag Bey Sakisian, Paris, until 1933]

Date: AH 800s / AD 1400s

Publication Date: AH 800s / AD 1400s

Publication Place: Iran

Subject: Timurids — Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Book of patterns

Date: 19th century

Publication Date: 19th century

Publication Place: North India, possibly Lucknow

Subject: Mughal — Black ink and wash and/or pasted with drawings, patterns, rubbings, or wood-block prints, some coloured; original brown morocco covers, now removed

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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An Entertainment Scene (Evening entertainment in the Golden Horn) fromSurname-i Vehbi

Author: LevniLate 17th century, Edirne - 1732, Istanbul

Date: 18th century

Publication Date: 18th century

Publication Place: Istanbul

Subject: Miniature; illustrated

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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'The Paths of Paradise'

Date: c. AH 860 / AD 1465

Publication Date: c. AH 860 / AD 1465

Publication Place: Herat

Subject: Timurids — Pigments

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Gradual

Date: around 1312

Publication Date: around 1312

Publication Place: St. Katharinental Abbey in Diessenhofen, Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland

Subject: Parchment, illuminated, binding: metal fittings

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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An Entertainment Scene (The third day of entertainment) fromSurname-i Vehbi

Author: LevniLate 17th century, Edirne - 1732, Istanbul

Date: 18th century

Publication Date: 18th century

Publication Place: Istanbul

Subject: Miniature; illustrated

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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Talismanic manuscript

Date: Hegira 12th century / AD 18th century

Publication Date: Hegira 12th century / AD 18th century

Publication Place: Ottoman Empire

Subject: Ottoman — Gouache, black and red ink, colloidal gold on polished paper; cardboard, leather and silk binding

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Illuminated Qur’an manuscript

Author: Calligrapher: Hussayn al-Hilmi, a student of Muhammad Amin know as Izzi

Date: Hegira 1239 / AD 1823

Publication Date: Hegira 1239 / AD 1823

Publication Place: Ottoman Turkey

Subject: European paper, black ink, pigments, gilding, pasteboard, leather

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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Page from a Qur’an.

Author: The Zirid prince, al-Mu‘izz

Date: Hegira, beginning of the second quarter of the 5th century / AD 9th century.

Publication Date: Hegira, beginning of the second quarter of the 5th century / AD 9th century.

Publication Place: Great Mosque of Kairouan.

Subject: Zirid — Decorated parchment.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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"Alexander is Lowered into the Sea"

Author: Mukunda

Date: AH 1006-7 / AD 1597–8

Publication Date: AH 1006-7 / AD 1597–8

Publication Place: India

Subject: Mughals — Main support: Ink, watercolour, gold on paper Margins: Gold on dyed paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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List of 49 men, women and children from the district of Chiavari (on the Italian cost, near Genoa) who were kept as slaves in Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers, in March 1816

Date: 23 March 1816

Publication Date: 23 March 1816

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Circular letter by the Italian Director General of Police to all the Italian Prefects, regarding 'Italian migration to Tunis and Bona (Algeria)'

Date: Rome, 6 December 1878

Publication Date: Rome, 6 December 1878

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Firman issued by Sultan Abdülmecid for the construction of the Constanta-Cernavodă railway

Date: 1857

Publication Date: 1857

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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"The Clever Hare with the King of the Elephants at the Spring of the Moon"

Author: [Art market, India, until 1969]; Nasli M. Heeramaneck, New York (until 1971); Alice N. Heeramaneck, New York (until 1982)

Date: AH second quarter of the 10th century / AD second quarter 16th century

Publication Date: AH second quarter of the 10th century / AD second quarter 16th century

Publication Place: Gujarat

Subject: Muzaffarids (Gujarat Sultanate) — Ink and opaque watercolour on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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Quran

Date: 19th century

Publication Date: 19th century

Publication Place: Zaouia of Sidi Sahab, Kairouan

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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Rihlat al-Abdari

Author: Muhammad Ibn Al-Hajj Al-Abdar

Date: Early 18th-century copy of 15th-century original

Publication Date: Early 18th-century copy of 15th-century original

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

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"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens"

Author: Muhammad Husain KashmiriIndiaca. 1560–1611

Date: AH 1006-7 / AD 1597-8

Publication Date: AH 1006-7 / AD 1597-8

Publication Place: Attributed to India

Subject: Mughals — Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

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Antonis Benaki's list of acquisitions

Date: c. 1920

Publication Date: c. 1920

Publication Place: Alexandria

Subject: Paper, ink, photograhy

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Peace Treaty of Campo Formio, 17 October 1797, between the French Republic and the Austrian Empire

Date: 1797

Publication Date: 1797

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Ottoman official document containing theTughra

Date: Hegira 1150 / AD 18th century

Publication Date: Hegira 1150 / AD 18th century

Publication Place: Turkey

Subject: Ottoman — Ink, paper, gold

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Request for financial help to the Minister of the Interior by Filippo Codispoti, a former Italian migrant to Cairo, who had to flee Egypt with his family in 1882

Date: Reggio Calabria, 21 September 1882

Publication Date: Reggio Calabria, 21 September 1882

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

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Letter from the Tunisian merchants of Egypt to the Bey of Tunis

Date: 1820

Publication Date: 1820

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Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

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Rustam Slaying Alkus

Author: Siyavush

Date: Hegira 984 / AD 1576-77

Publication Date: Hegira 984 / AD 1576-77

Publication Place: Iran, Qazvin

Subject: Safavid — Opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Nebamun Tomb Paintings

Date: 1820?

Publication Date: 1820?

Publication Place: Egypt

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Prayer Book

Author: 'Abd al-Qadir HisariTurkey

Date: AH 1180 / AD 1766

Publication Date: AH 1180 / AD 1766

Publication Place: Turkey

Subject: Ottoman — Manuscript: ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper Binding: leather and gold

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"How Rustam Found a Spring"

Author: Textile Museum, Washington (until 1969)

Date: AH ca.700-730 / AD ca. 1300 - 1330

Publication Date: AH ca.700-730 / AD ca. 1300 - 1330

Publication Place: Attributed to Northwestern Iran or Baghdad

Subject: Ink, opaque watercolour, silver, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Letter from l’Institut d’Afrique in Paris, congratulating Ahmed Bey for having abolished the slave trade

Date: 1841

Publication Date: 1841

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Other

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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The peace treaty of Bucharest

Date: 28 May 1812

Publication Date: 28 May 1812

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Dala’il al-Khayrat (Guidlines Taha Belsings) by Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Suleiman al-Jazouli)

Author: Unknown

Date: Hegira 13th century / AD 19th century

Publication Date: Hegira 13th century / AD 19th century

Publication Place: Turkey

Subject: Paper, ink, watercolour, gold

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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The Traveller Gives Water to the Dog

Date: AH ca. 1012 / AD ca. 1604

Publication Date: AH ca. 1012 / AD ca. 1604

Publication Place: Agra, India

Subject: Mughals — opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Royal Decree to establish the post ofMakhzen

Date: 22 November 1892

Publication Date: 22 November 1892

Publication Place: Fez

Subject: Paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Hilye

Author: Thank you very much; Where the paper of S. Kartafd B Al-Hajj, the memorization of Muhammad Al-Wahbi, according to Khalil Al-Safi

Date: Hegira 1295 / AD 1878

Publication Date: Hegira 1295 / AD 1878

Publication Place: Ottoman Turkey

Subject: Black ink, pigments, gilding on board; ebru (marbling)

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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"Alexander and the Circle of Seven Sages"

Date: 9th century AH / 15th Century AD

Publication Date: 9th century AH / 15th Century AD

Publication Place: Iran

Subject: Timurids — Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Language: Undetermined

Type: Picture

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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List of 15 'Tunisian Turks' captured by corsair captain Giuseppe Diano from the Kingdom of Sicily and sold in Palermo

Date: 1808–11

Publication Date: 1808–11

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Triptych with 'hilya-i-sherif' (noble description).

Date: Hegira 12th century / AD 18th century.

Publication Date: Hegira 12th century / AD 18th century.

Publication Place: Turkey.

Subject: Ottoman period — Wood, gilded and illuminated parchment paper.

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Appraisal by the assessor of the Tribunal of Booty (Tribunale delle prede) of Palermo, of 25 'Turks of the Barbary Coast' captured by Italian corsairs from the Kingdom of Sicily and detained in Palermo

Date: 5 August 1811

Publication Date: 5 August 1811

Subject:

Language: Undetermined

Type: Document

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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Page ofmuraqqa‘at

Date: Late 15th – late 18th century; assembled and illuminated in the 19th century

Publication Date: Late 15th – late 18th century; assembled and illuminated in the 19th century

Publication Place: Turkey; pieces signed by Shaykh Hamdullah, Hafiz ‘Uthman, Hafiz Yusuf, Muhammad

Subject: Ottoman — Ink, gold, silver and opaque watercolour on paper; mounted on card, with framing bands of embossed paper-ribbon; text inthuluthandnaskhi

Language: Undetermined

Type: Book

Library: Museum With No Frontiers

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