Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian Manuscripts

An important 'New Style' Qur'an section

before May/ June AH 292/905 CE
Middle East

A bilingual psalter in Coptic and Arabic

Dated 26 Bashans AM 1526 / 2 June 1830 CE
Egypt, Eastern Desert, Monastery of Saint Anthony

A painting from the Baburnama made for Emperor Akbar

c. 1589
Mughal India

A fragment from the Hamzanama made for Emperor Akbar

c. 1560 - 1575
Mughal India

Hindu Divinities

dated Samvat 1897 / 1840 CE
Southern India, Deccan

A complete 30 volume Qur'an

dated 1103 AH / 1691 CE
China, Yunnan

A Qing Dynasty Qur'an

18th - early 19th century
China

A section from a Qur'an in Maghribi script

Dated AH 788/ 1386-7 CE
Morocco, Fez

Qur'an Leaf in Maghribi Script

13th century
Spain, probably Granada or Valencia

A leaf from a rare early Qur'an in Kufic script

9th century CE
probably Damascus

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

early 19th century
India

A view of the Taj Mahal

c. 1810 - 1815
India, Agra

Tutinameh, ‘Tales of a Parrot’

c. 1700
Northern India, Gujarat, perhaps Surat

Bahar-i Danesh, 'The Springtime of Knowledge'

1695 - 1725
Mughal India, Delhi

Nizami's Khamsa or 'Quintet'

dated AH 1071 / 1661 CE
Safavid Iran, probably Isfahan

Pand-nameh (Book of Advice) of Loqman

dated AH 941 / 1534-35 CE
Bukhara

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