

Artwork details
- Date:
- 1873
- Medium:
- paper, lithography
- Dimensions:
- 843 × 1029 px
- Museum record:
- View original



Bahram Chubineh captured by Khusrau Parviz (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)

Kalligrafische tekst

The Reign of Nushirwan, the Combat between the Khan of Chin and the Haitalians (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)

Textile fragment with pattern of pages with script and bunraku puppeteers

Page from a Qur'an, Sura al-Nisa 4, verses 159–60

Text Page, Persian Verses (recto); Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso)

Leaf from a Qur'an

Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)

Page from a Qur'an (recto)

Kalligrafische tekst

Kalligrafie in Nastaliq-schrift in een omlijsting van gekleurd spatwerk

The Reign of Nushirwan, The Combat between the Khan of Chin and the Haitalians (recto) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)

Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso)

Qur'an leaf in Eastern Kufic script

Kalligrafische tekst in cartouches

Solar Law

Illuminated opening page (folio 1 verso) and 131 folios with Persian text, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Nushirwan Sends Mihran Sitad to Fetch the Daughter of the King of China (Recto); The Forty-Eighth Year of Nushirwan's Reign. The Combat of the Khaqan of China with the Haithalians (Verso)

Folio from a Persian Manafi‘ al-Hayawan (The Benefits of Animals) of Abu Said Ubaid-Allah ibn Jibrail ibn Bakhtishu (died 1058–68) (verso)

Text Page, Persian Verses (verso) in an Anthology with some verses from Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Jami; The Fifth Throne Yusuf and Zulaykha

Met rood lint samengebonden pakket

Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)

Page from a Qur'an (verso)

Kalligrafische tekst, opgebouwd uit figuren