Ten Folios from a Grammar Commentary

The album contains 19 folios, carrying 36 pieces of calligraphy. A small note suggests that the album entered the library of Khanlar Mirza Ihtisham al-Dawla, in Muharram 1271/Sep-O...

205 ornament and architectural engravings on 156 pages bound within a brown leather binding. 153 pages are numbered, two pages are numbered "153," and three pages are not numbered....

These two separate folios are dispersed from a small manuscript of Persian poetry written in oblong format (safina). On the recto side of the folios the text area is divided into t...

The manuscript is composed of earlier text pages remounted on larger folios. The original text area is very small and copied in naskh script in black ink, 12 lines to a page. Accor...

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 is one of three pages from an album of calligraphy written in naskh and thuluth scripts in horizontal format. The other sides of the original folios were most likely removed t...

This is a selection of Bustan (Orchard) by Sa'di. It contains 16 folios, beginning with two illustrations in the frontispiece. The colophon states it was copied in Zhu'l-Qa'dah 907...