Dood van Khusran

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

Prins Kushrau wenend in een landschap

The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night

The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Iskander met twee dames

The Story of Hushang, from a Majma al-tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru (recto)

Twee banen met een paartje op de bovenste baan en vier musici op de onderste

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Rustam met draak

Prins die geschenken ontvangt

The prince, with the help of Mukhlis who changes into a frog, recovers the ring lost in the sea, and returns it to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night

The bird of seven colors brings a sable to the pious man, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

Gevechtsscène, illustratie van de Razm Nama

The prince rejects the amorous advances of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Liefdespaar op een terras

The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Ruiter te paard en een bedelaar

Vrouw onder een baldakijn en een vrouw op haar knieën

Page of disasters, from the Tarikh-i Alfi (History of a Thousand Years)

The goldsmith judged; the bear cubs trained by the carpenter as though they were his sons, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Third Night

Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso); Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Laila en Mainum