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Fragments of an onomasticon (10)

Egyptian (Ancient)

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Qur'an scroll from Mamluk Cairo

Cairo

Arabic

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Gurdiya demonstrates to Khusraw Parviz how she defeated the Khaqan, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Women playing on a rock slide

Lucknow

Undetermined

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Giacomo Cristo, last podesta of Chios, arrested in 1566, from the History of Sultan Suleyman by Sayyid Luqman

Istanbul

Persian

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Iskandar visits the Ka‘ba in Mecca, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Shiraz

Persian

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Zubdat al-a`māl wa khulāṣat al-af`āl, by al-Isfarā'īnī

Arabic

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Calligraphy in Persian, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Persian

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Mevlevi Sufi dervishes dancing the samā` ritual, from Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Persian

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Akbar gives thanks for his victories in 1567, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Qur'an from North Africa

Arabic

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Yogi seated in Kumbhaka (kunbhak) position (recto) and kanphata yogi seated by a hut (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Young man seated with a book (recto), and young man playing a tar (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Undetermined

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Bahram Gur hunting lions, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Treasury of Secrets (Makhzan al-Asrār), by Ḥaydar Khwārazmī (d. 1414)

chg,tur

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Burning and Melting (Sūz u Gawdāz) by Naw`ī Khabushānī

Persian

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Groom leading his horse, by Reẓā `Abbāsī (d. 1635)

Iran

Persian

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Anthology (Dīvān), by Āṣafī (d. 1517)

Persian

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The dishonest falconer and his slandering parrots, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Forty Traditions (Arba`ūn Ḥadīth), by Jāmī (d. 1492)

ara,fas

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Mining silver in Potosi (Bolivia), from Translation of the History of the New World (Tarjuma-ye ta'rikh-e yangi dunya), by Ahizade `Ali Celebi

Persian

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Celebrations for the birth of Akbar's son Salim in August 1569, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Here I am with a Burning Shield, from Manal that Arts of Harsam (The End of the Question and the Hope in the Sciences of Equestrian Hope) in Al-Qasra

Arabic

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Iskandar kills Fur, king of Kanuj, in battle, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The Sufi, the enslaved man, and the last camel, from Rosary of the Pious (Subḥat al-abrār) by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Persian

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Yogi seated in Nauli Kriya (niyuli) position (recto), and kanphata yogi by his hut (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Yūsuf and Zulaykhā, by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Persian

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Jamshīd writes on the rockface, from the Garden (Būstān) by Sa`dī (d. 1291)

Bukhara

Persian

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I deliberately betrayed Boss in Spams Taha Akbar, from the hester of Akbar (Kabernama), B Abu’ Fazal

Agra

Persian

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Ḥilyat al-abrār, by al-Nawawi (d. 1277)

Arabic

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Anushirvan's sixth assembly for his minister Buzurjmihr and the Zoroastrian priests (mobads), from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Ahnā al-manā’iḥ fī asnā al-madā’iḥ, by Maḥmūd ibn Salmān ibn Fahd (d. 1325)

Arabic

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Shah Abul-Ma'il will increase at Akbar's current festival, from the hester of Akbar (Kabernama), by Abul'Fazl.

Agra

Persian

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Folios from a Book of Constellations (Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita)

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Yogi in the seal (khechari mudra) position (recto), and yogi seated by his hut (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Rustam grabs Afrasiyab, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Iskandar learns he has been accepted by God as a prophet, on his deathbed, from the Five Poems (Khamsa) by Niẓāmī

Iran

Persian

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Juz' 18 and 19 of the Khayqani Qur'an

Arabic

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Portrait of Awrangzib as a young prince, from an unidentified album

Persian

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Juz' 30 of the Qur'an

Tabriz

Arabic

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Akbar inspecting construction for his new capital Fatehpur Sikri, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Kay Khusraw reviews the Iranian army before its departure for Turan to avenge the death of Siyavush, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Portrait of a young man, from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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Love poetry by Ibn Sūdūn (d. 1464), and magic recipes

Arabic

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Kanphata Yogi Seated in Virasana (Sahajasana) Position, From the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Astrolabe

Isfahan

Arabic

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Gushtasp wrongly sends his son Isfandiyar to prison, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Book of the Constellations (Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita), by `Abd al-Raḥman al-Ṣūfī (d. 986), in Persian translation

Persian

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Th hester f akbar (cbernama), b with vaseline my pen

Agra

Persian

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Portrait of Mirza Raja Jai Singh with his son Kunwar Ram Singh

Persian

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Akbar appoints Muzaffar Khan as governor of Bengal, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Hester F. Jidda (The Book of Jewels Performed in the History of Jidda), By Ahmad Al-Hadhru (d. 1909)

Mecca

Arabic

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Portrait of a man, from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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The pious man riding a panther, from the Garden (Būstān), by Sa`di

Unknown

Persian

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Calligraphy in Dakhni, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Golconda

Deccan

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Rustam drags the Khaqan of Chin from his white elephant, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Shiraz

Persian

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The Ottoman encampment at Belgrade, from the History of Sultan Süleyman by Sayyid Luqman

Istanbul

Persian

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Sapur and Hormazd Sapur, Text Folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Ferdowsi

Persian

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Portrait of Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820-1879), from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Persian

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Juz' 3 of the Qur'an, from Aqqoyunlu Shiraz

Arabic

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Faramurz captures Surkha, son of Afrasiyab, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The History of Sultan Suleyman by Sayyid Luqman

Istanbul

Persian

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One Hundred Sayings (Ṣad Kalima) of `Alī ibn Abī Talib (d. 661)

Shiraz

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Women visiting an ashram

Bijapur

Persian

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Book of the Dead of Patjauderetmut

Egyptian (Ancient)

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Portrait of a man sitting with hands folded, from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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Contendings of Horus and Seth (recto), Beginning of the Sweet Sayings Found While Using a Papyrus (Love-Songs III) (Recto), Love-songs II (Verso), Memoranda or Business Jottings (Verso)

Egyptian (Ancient)

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Shīrīn mourning the murdered Khusrau, from the Five Poems (Khamsa) by Niẓāmī

Iran

Persian

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Zal with Rudaba in her chamber, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Anthology (Dīvān) of Persian poetry

Persian

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Manuchihr kills Tur in battle, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Ottoman book of prayers

Istanbul

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Rustam and Zal greet Kay Khusraw, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Begum Samru and her army

Undetermined

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Horseriders and young men in Ottoman dress (recto), and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Iran

Persian

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The mouse and the crow become friends, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Anthology (majmū`) of six Persian poets

Persian

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al-Fuṣūl al-ḥikmīya, by al-Fārābī (d. 950)

Arabic

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Marooned at sea, from Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di

Herat

Persian

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Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492)

Persian

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Collection (majmū`a) of Persian poetry, by Amīr Ḥusaynī (d. 1318), Awḥadī Marāgha’ī (d. 1338) and Salmān Sāvajī (d. 1376)

Persian

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The lovesick king conversing with the bird at night, from the Book of Separation (Firāq-nāma) by Salmān Sāvajī (d. 1376)

Persian

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Qur'an from Timurid Herat

Arabic

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Akbar goes hunting with trained cheetahs, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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The lynx considers brutality in nature, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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The king encounters three quarrelling men, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Horseman with two shields and two swords, from Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship (Nihayat al-su'l wa al-umniya fi ta‘allum ‘amal al-furusiyya) by al-Aqsara'i

Arabic

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Boys climbing a tree, standing figures and a chained lion (recto), drinking party and standing figures (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Undetermined

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Portrait of emperor Jahangir with a straight sword, from an unidentified album

Undetermined

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Farīdūn crosses the Tigris on his way to fight the tyrant Ẓaḥḥāk, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Persian

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Kanphata yogi seated by a shrine (recto) and yogi in the tortoise (kurma) position (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Persian

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Akbar's army besieging Dunara fort in 1576, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Six papyrus fragments of letters, lists and other documents

Arabic

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Shahbaz Khan directs the siege of Dunara fort in 1576, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Qur'an from Seljuk Konya

Konya

Arabic

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Forty Traditions (Arba`ūn Ḥadīth), by Jāmī

ara,fas

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On falconry (Kitab al-bayzara)

Arabic

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Herthma Branding a Sword, From Manal That Arts of Harsmanshb (The End of Sciences and Hope in the Sciences of Equestrian Hope) by Al-Qasra

Arabic

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Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di

Herat

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