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- An illuminated copy of the Burdah
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- Illustrated copy of Maqamāt al-Ḥarīrī
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- Qaṣīdat al-burdah by al-Būṣīrī
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- The first of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Qu'ran with interlinear literal translations in Persian and Chagatai…
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- The ninth of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Qu'ran with interlinear literal translations in Persian and Chagatay…
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- A richly illuminated Ottoman collection of Qurʼānic suras, prayers and passages of popular religious interest, including tables…
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- A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- Persian illustrated copy of Qazwini's Wonders of Creation , an important Arabic cosmography.
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- A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- A Safavid-era illustrated copy of the romance of Khusraw and Shirin , one of the five poems of Nizami's Khamsah (Quintet).…
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- Album of forty calligraphy specimens given by Colonel Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (d. 1795) to Sir William Jones (d. 1794).
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- Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī (d. ca. 1131) composed his epic poem Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah…
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- This composite text includes the Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah (Garden of Truth and Rules of the Way) along with a…
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- This copy of the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) contains most of the ghazal lyric poems and quatrains typically found in other…
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- This unsigned and undated copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a…
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- Illustrated copy of Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's Anvār-i Suhaylī , or the Lights of Canopus , a collection of animal fables of Indian…
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- A nearly complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the…
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- A Safavid-era scribe named Muḥammad Amīn bin ‘Abd Allāh completed this manuscript of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which…
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- Illustrated copy of Muḥammad 'Aṣṣār Tabrīzī's poem Mihr va-Mushtarī (the Sun and Jupiter).
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- Illustrated copy of Laylā va Majnūn .
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- A nearly complete, illuminated and illustrated Safavid-era copy of the Subḥat al-Abrār (Rosary of the Pious), the third of…
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- Mūshnāmah (Book of the Mouse) or Mūsh va Gurbah (Mouse and Cat), a mock-epic attributed to ‘Ubayd Zākānī (d. ca. 1370). A…
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- Illustrated copy of the Gūy va Chawgān (Ball and Polo Stick) or Ḥālnāmah (Book of Ecstasy), a Sufi mystical text by ʻĀrifī…
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- This manuscript of the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) contains variant ghazal lyric poems and quintains ( mukhammasāt ) but no…
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- Illustrated copy of Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Khamsah , a collection of five epic poems.
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- Illustrated copy of Nizami's Khamsa (five poems).
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- This Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- A very rare and richly illustrated copy of the Tuḥfat al-Fuqarā' (Gift of the Impoverished), also called the Majma‘ al-Fuqarā'…
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- Two copies of Qiṣṣah-'i Mūsh va Gurbah (Story of the Mouse and Cat) bound together, both apparently completed in Indian…
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- This illustrated New Persian metrical translation of the Pahlavi Middle Persian text Ardāvirāfnāmah (Book of Ardā Virāf) by…
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- Persian illustrated copy of the Dīvān-i Shāhī, a collection of poems by the Persian poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī.
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- The Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in…
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- The Salīm-Shāhnāmah (Book of Salīm Shāh), chronicles the reign of the Ottoman ruler Selim I (1470–1520; r. 1512–20) . The…
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- Famed calligrapher Khalīl Allāh (fl. ca. 1580–1625) completed this abridged Divān of select poems by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d.…
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- Illustrated copy of Amir Khusrau's masnavi Duval Rani u Khizr Khan , the tragic love story of Khizr Khan and Duval Rani.
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- This complete copy of the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) contains most of the ghazal lyric poems and quatrains typically found…
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- An album of paintings and calligraphic specimens.
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- This brief, undated illustrated manuscript, probably completed in 18th-century India, contains two poetic works, one written in…
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- Khulāṣat al-ash‘ār (Abridgment of Poems), an anthology of lyric poetry quatrains culled from the works of roughly forty poets…
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- A complete unillustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the collection…
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- This manuscript of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) bears illuminated headers…
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- This illustrated copy of the Dabistān-i Maẕāhib (School of Doctrines) presents an encyclopedia of comparative religion…
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- This late 14th-century Kulliyāt (Collected Works) of Jalayirid-era panegyric poet Salmān Sāvajī (d. 1376) contains not only the…
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- A complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the collection…
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- The first of two volumes of a Persian translation and commentary on the Qur‘ān entitled Mavāhib-i ʻAlīyah (Sublime Talents) or…
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- This composite manuscript contains two texts: a commentary on forty prophetic traditions and a hagiography of the calligrapher…
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- The Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah (Garden of Truth and Rules of the Way) by Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanāʼī…
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- This Dīvān compiles together poems ascribed to Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (ca. 1253–1325), widely regarded as India's most famous…
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- A complete, unillustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the fifth of seven books in the collection…
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- An unfinished volume of the Nafāʾis al-Funūn fī ʿArāʾis al-ʿUyūn (Troves of the Arts in the Eyes of the Brides) by the…