Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian Manuscripts

An early Qur’an section in Eastern Kufic script

before AH 292 / c. 900-905 CE
Middle East

Qur'an

19th century
Indonesia

Qur'an leaf in Kufic script

9th century
Near East

Two folios from a Qur’an in muhaqqaq script

early 14th century
Anatolia or Central Asia

Dala’il al-Khayrat ‘Guides to Goodness’

19th century
North India, Kashmir

A Royal Qajar Quran

Dated AH 1244 / 1828-29 CE
Qajar Iran

An Important Dictionary of the Arabic Language

Dated AH 1066 / 1656 CE
probably Mughal India

‘The Golden dishes on the tables of discourse’

late 13th or early 14th century
Ilkhanid Iran

Ibn Sina, ‘The Canon of Medicine’

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

A Mamluk Qur'an

c. 1340 - 1350 CE
Cairo

‘Introduction to the devout life’

Dated 4th April 1703
Copied in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palastine

A Calligrapher Prince's copy of his Poetical Verses

1st quarter 17th century
Safavid Empire, possibly Herat, the margins probably Central India, possibly Bijapur

A panel of calligraphy signed by Shah Muhammad Al-Mashadi

AH 968 / 1560-61 CE
Iran

A rare and important illustrated palm leaf manuscript

19th century
India, Orissa

A book of fables

c. 1800
India, probably Deccan

Jahangirnama 'The Chronicle of Jahangir'

c. 1630 (the text)
North India

The death of the False Prophet Musaylima

c. 1590
India, by an Imperial Mughal artist

Lady holding a wine cup

mid 17th century
Mughal India

A tiraz with kufic inscriptions

10th century
Abbasid Empire

An early Islamic ewer

9th - 10th century
Khurasan or Mesopotamia

A Musharabiya (window screen) with the design of a tall vase

19th century
Egypt, Cairo

Foliate panel with deep cusped arch

c. 1680 - 1730 (Mughal, late Aurangzeb-Muhammad Shah period)
India, Rajasthan

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Art of the Middle Ages