Arabic, Persian and Indian Manuscripts

Majnun in the Wilderness

c. 1575 CE
Iran, Shiraz

Firdawsi's Shahnama, 'Book of Kings'

AH 1058 / 1648 CE
Iran, Shiraz

A painting from the Baburnama made for Emperor Akbar

c. 1589
Mughal India

Dioscorides' De Materia Medica

18th century
India, probably Deccan

Hindu Divinities

dated Samvat 1897 / 1840 CE
Southern India, Deccan

Ibn Sina, ‘The Canon of Medicine’

An extremely early section
c. 1060 - 1165 CE
Abbasid Baghdad

An abridgment of al-Shatir’s astronomical tables for Damascus

AH 853 / 1449 CE
Syria, Damascus

An important 'New Style' Qur'an section

before May/ June AH 292/905 CE
Middle East

A complete 30 volume Qur'an

dated 1103 AH / 1691 CE
China, Yunnan

A Qing Dynasty Qur'an

18th - early 19th century
China

A Qur'an in sudani script

c. 1750 - 1799
Ethiopia, probably Harar

Muhammad Husayn al-Katib Kashmiri (d. AH 1020/1611-12 CE)

Nasta'liq calligraphy
17th century
Mughal India

A large Mughal Qur'an

17th century
India

A greater green leafbird on a fire lily

Company School
early 19th century
India

A view of the Taj Mahal

c. 1810 - 1815
India, Agra

Bahar-i Danesh, 'The Springtime of Knowledge'

1695 - 1725
Mughal India, Delhi

Pand-nameh (Book of Advice) of Loqman

dated AH 941 / 1534-35 CE
Bukhara

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Art of the Middle Ages