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Portraits of the Prophets Ilyās, Khiḍr, Hārūn and Adhar, with tyrant-king Ẓaḥḥāk (recto), and Prophets Ibrāhīm, Ismā`īl, Isḥaq and Ya`qūb, with king Afrāsiyāb (verso), from the genealogy (silsilanāma), Cream of Histories (Zübdet-üt Tevarih)

Baghdad

Turkish

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Qalun fatally wounds Bahram Chubina, and is seized, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The four friends against the hunter, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Jamshid teaches the crafts, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Shiraz

Persian

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Ṣuwar al-aqālīm, by al-Istakhrī

Arabic

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Tinted drawing and calligraphy, folio from an album for Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

ara,fas

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Two folios from the Blue Qur'an

Arabic

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Double front desk from the center of Khwarazmshah (Dakhri Khwarazmshah), by Zein al-Din al-Jarjani

Golconda

Persian

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Juz' 30 of a Mamluk Qur'an

Cairo

Arabic

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Crowds watching Akbar on the enraged elephant Lakhna, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Arrival of the ambassadors from Badakhshan in 1561, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran

Iran

Arabic

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Illuminated folio, probably from a Qur'an

Undetermined

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Akbar receives the keys of the surrendered fort of Mankot, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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

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Young men in Ottoman costume, with Persian and Arabic calligraphy (recto), and seated princes, with Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Persian

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Akbar's forces pursue the defeated Gujaratis at Sarnal, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Block-printed amulet on paper

Arabic

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Both wounded from battling Isfandiyar, Rustam pauses while his horse Rakhsh flees, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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

Golconda

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On the scholars and rulers of Yemen (al-Sulūk fī ṭabaqāt al-`ulamā' wa al-mulūk), volume 2, by Muḥammad ibn Ya`qūb al-Janadī (d. 1332)

Arabic

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Faridun’s sons meet King Sarv of Yemen and his daughters, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Sufis performing samā` before their master Shaykh Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyā (d. 1325), from the Five Poems (Khamsa) by Amīr Khusrau (d. 1325)

Herat

Persian

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Mihr Hurmuzd assassinates Khusraw II in his bed, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Partial copy of the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdausī (d. 1020)

Persian

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Juz' 5 of the Khayqani Qur'an

Arabic

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Contendings of Horus and Seth (recto), Encomium of Ramesses V (verso), Beginning of the words of the great dispenser of entertainment (love-songs I) (verso)

Egyptian (Ancient)

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King Jamshīd hears of the deeds of `Amr-e Omayya, from the Book of the East (Khāvarānnāma) by Ibn Ḥusām (d. 1470)

Persian

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Portrait of a young man holding a rosary (tasbih), from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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The Romans appoint Baranush as their new Caesar, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The elephants concede to the hare, and the two bickering birds, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Harthma and if a shield according to Lank, from Manal that the arts of keenness (the end of the question and wish in the sciences of the hope of equestrianism) in the palace

Arabic

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Portrait of a young man sitting cross-legged, from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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Iskandar consults the talking tree, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Fragments of literary and documentary texts (11)

egy,ell

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Collection (majmū`) of texts on astrology, attributed to Ptolemy and Hermes

Arabic

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Key to the comprehensive divination (Tercüme-i Miftah-ı Cifrü’l-Cami), Turkish translation of the Arabic Miftah al-jafr al-jami`, by Shaykh `Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami (d. 1458)

Istanbul

Turkish

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Complete works (Kulliyāt), by Sa`dī (d. 1291)

Shiraz

Persian

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Qur'an volume from North Africa or Spain

Arabic

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The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Isma`il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri

Turkish

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The lion chases the greedy man up a tree, from Tales of a Parrot (Ṭūṭīnāma) by Ẓiya’ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d. 1350)

Persian

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Akbar Forex paid by Muhammad Hussein Mirza in 1573, from the hester of Akbar (Kabernama) by Abu’Fazal.

Agra

Persian

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Folio from a Mamluk Qur'an

Cairo

Arabic

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Khusrau Anushirvan orders the execution of Mazdak and his followers, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Rivniz is killed in battle, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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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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The angel Surush rescues Khusraw Parviz, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Qanun player with his cat, by Jagjivan

Persian

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Siyavush plays polo before Afrasiyab, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Portrait of a nobleman in purple jama and orange turban (recto), Persian calligraphy by Mir `Ali (verso), from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Bukhara

Persian

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Papyrus memo: tax evaders under arrest

Arabic

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Instruction on astronomy (Ta`līm dar ma`rifat-e taqvīm), by Abū Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥāsib al-Ṭabarī (d. c. 1125)

Persian

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Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498)

Surat

Persian

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Nobles arrive for Akbar's coronation feast, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Siyavush plays polo before Afrasiyab, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Nuh (Noah) and his family in the Ark, from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri

Turkish

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Portrait of a Woman, by Mu`īn Muṣavvir

Persian

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Gayumars enthroned, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Shiraz

Persian

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Shapur's army besieges the Arab fortress of king Tair, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The poet with his friends in the orchard at night, from Prince Baysunghur's Rose Garden (Gulistan) by Sa`di

Herat

Persian

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Rustam rides over Sava, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Sadiq Khan leads Akbar's forces against the army of Raja Madhukar in the Orchha forest, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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Portrait heads of a turbanned man (above), and a woman with an earring (below), from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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Book of the Dead of Lady Neskhons

Egyptian (Ancient)

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Akbar's forces navigate the thorny landscape near Sarnal, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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

Undetermined

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Piruz and his army ride into a pit, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Hurmuzd blinded by Binduy and Gustaham, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The Prophets Job and Moses, from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri

Turkish

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Book of Ecstasy (Ḥālnāma), or The Ball and the Polo Mallet (Gūy o Chūgān), by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-`Ārifī

Herat

Persian

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Demotic fragment

Undetermined

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Iskandar consults the talking birds on the mountain of Israfil, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Nūshīrvān listens to the owls, from the Treasury of Secrets (Makhzan al-asrār) by Niẓāmī

Persian

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One Hundred Sayings (Ṣad Kalima) of Imām `Alī

Tabriz

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Bahram Gur, text folio from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Charming anecdotes on admonition regarding honorable people with physical blights (al-Nukat al-ziraf fi al-maw'iza bi-dhawi al-`ahat min al-ashraf), by Jar Allah ibn Fahd (1486-1547)

Mecca

Arabic

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Papyrus ledger of accounts

Arabic

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Anthology (Dīvān) of Persian poetry

Bidar

Persian

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Shah Jahan on a globe with his four sons, by Balchand (recto), Persian calligraphy by Mir `Ali (verso), folio from the Minto Album

Bukhara

Persian

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Rustam fights his son Suhrab, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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Tadhkirat al-i`dād li-yawm al-ma`ād, by al-Ṣanhājī (d. 1423)

Arabic

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Atman Sultan Bayezid and where Grand Vizier Coca Mustafa Pasha, from the cream of history (date butter) by Seyid Luqman Assyri

Turkish

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Amulet case

Undetermined

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Portrait of Safavid Shah Sulaymān (d. 1694), by Shaykh `Abbāsī

Isfahan

Persian

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Jamshid Teaches Te Crafts To Humanity, From Bal'ami's History (Ta'rikh-i Bal'ami)

Persian

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Salm and Tūr organise the murder of their brother Īraj, by Muḥammad Zamān, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma)

Isfahan

Persian

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

Hyderabad

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Bahram Gur receives Caesar's envoy, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi

Persian

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The lynx considers natural brutality and divine retribution, from Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi

Persian

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Three Folios from Juz' 17 of the Qur'an

Arabic

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The Revelations of the Two Holy Sanctuaries (Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn), by Muḥyī al-dīn `Abd al-Raḥmān al-Lārī (d. 1527)

Persian

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Papyrus letter to `Abdullāh ibn As`ad in Fayyūm

Arabic

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Prayers for the week, attributed to `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 661)

Arabic

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Papyrus letter and agricultural lease dated Dhū al-Ḥijja 290H (October-November 903)

Arabic

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Portrait of a woman, from the Mirza Birjis Qadr Album

Undetermined

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History of Sultan Süleyman, by Sayyid Luqman

Istanbul

Persian

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I`timad Khan's entourage observing his submission to Akbar, from the History of Akbar (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl

Agra

Persian

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