Page from the Poem of Beauty and Love

Page from the Poem of Beauty and Love

India, Kashmir, Mughal, 19th century

Calligraphy (verso)

India, Deccan, 17th century

Folio B: Folio from the "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj) of Jami (recto)

Mushfiq, others

Text of Rustam and Suhrab, from the Shah-nama of Firdausi (Persian, c. 934–1020) (recto)

India, Bijapur, Deccan

Page from the Poem of Beauty and Love

India, Kashmir, Mughal, 19th century

Calligraphy of a Pious Invocation in Rhyme (verso)

India, Mughal, 16th century

Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish Poems in Praise of Wine (verso)

Mirza Muhammad, Sultan Muhammad Nur

Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)

Mushfiq, Sultan 'Ali al-Mashadi

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Page from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Subhat al-abrar (Rosary of the Righteous) (verso)

Mushfiq, others