Persian poet

This manuscript of Jami’s Yusuf and Zulaykha retains its decorated binding, double illuminated frontispiece, and five illustrations. The text is copied in nasta`liq in two columns ...

The recto side of the folio features two columns of Persian text written in black ink and nasta’liq script. The columns are interrupted by a painting depicting a male figure in the...

This album is bound in folding or accordion format, with 20 folios, or 40 pages, containing Persian sketches and paintings. The majority of the works are rendered in black or red ...

This is a bifolio from a manuscript of Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami, the renowned classical Persian poet (1414-1492). The bifolio consists of gold-sprayed cream- colored paper for te...

This single detached folio comes from a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami, the 12th century Iranian poet. The Khamsa is a popular and often illustrated text, especially in the 15th and ...

This painting dramatically represents a young woman about to commit sati, or self-immolation. The literary subject of a woman’s sacrificing herself on the funeral pyre of her dead ...

Obv.: Archer with bow and dagger running to r.; two small countermarks. Rev.: incuse punch...