Ms. illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
The surround contains cuttings from a manuscript qasida by ʻUrfī in "-am rā".
Artist: possibly by Ḥabīb-Allāh al-Mashhadī (fl. 1595-1610).
Miniature measures 163 x 78 mm.

Ms. written and decorated between 1528 and 1578.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Aḥmad al-Ḥusainī (fl. 1528-d. 1578), who is named in the border.
Text box: 170 x 96 mm.
Surround is a tuyugh (quatrain).

Ms. miniature; written and illuminated ca. 1600, probably in Herāt, Afghanistan.
The surround contains an alphabet in large 16th century letters which has been cut from a exercise-book manuscript.
Decoration: 1 miniature.
Miniature measures 175

Ms. written and illuminated between 1517 and 1571.
Text: unidentified Persian mas̤navī.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Shāh Maḥmūd al-Nīshāpūrī (fl. 1517-1571).
Text box: 157 x 60 mm.
The cartouches are cut from manuscripts

Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Decoration: 1 miniature; illuminated border.
Artist: in the style of Muḥammad Muʼmin.
Text: an inscription in Persian at shoulders names Muḥammad Muʼmin as the artist and Ḥusain Kha

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, the second half of the 16th century.
Text: four lines of a mas̤navī by Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadi (fl. 1453-1514).
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Maḥmūd ibn Isḥāq al-Shihābī (fl. 1521-1585).

Ms. illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Miniature measures 140 x 90 mm.
Artist: in the style of Ḥabīb-Allāh Mashhadī.
The surround contains cuttings from a manuscript; the end of a Persian quatrain rhyming in "-ar gīrand".

Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, or in Bukhara, in the first half of the 16th century.
Text: quatrain celebrating the Persian new year (Nauroz).
Decoration: illuminated borders.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Ḥusainī (Mīr ʻAlī al-Ḥusain

Ms. single leaf illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan; probably in the 1590s.
Artist: ascribed in the illumination to Muḥammad Muʼmin.
Miniature measures 67 x 152 mm.
The surround contains a cutting from a manuscript, six lines of a Persian qasida

Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, in the third quarter of the 16th century.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: ascibed in the calligraphy as written by Khalīl-Allāh, who has been identified as Khalīl ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad

Ms. illuminated in the mid 16th century.
Miniature measures 172 x 148 mm.
The surrounds contain cuttings from manuscripts; the large cartouches are Persian prose, probably from Anṣārī's Munājāt; the small cartouches are three lines of a Persain

Ms. illuminated in the first half of the 17th century, probably in Persia.
Copy of a Haravi composition of ca. 1580.
The surround is an unidentified Persian quatrain cut from a manuscript.

Ms. miniature cut from a manuscript, trimmed, and pasted to card; illuminated in Qazvīn or Iṣfahān, ca. 1600.
This fol. is the left half of a double-page frontispiece cut from a manuscript and mounted on an album leaf; the missing half would probabl

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, 17th century.
Text: prose preface to an unidentified treatise.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Text box: 213 x 135 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Iṣfahān, in the third quarter of the seventeenth century.
Artist: Āqā Zamān; name inscribed on the illumination; he is probably a son of Muʻin̄ Muṣavvir.
Miniature measures 168 x 87 mm.

Ms. illuminated in the style of Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Miniature measures 164 x 84 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, second or third quarter of the 16th century.
Text: nine lines of an unidentified Persian mas̤navī.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Shah Maḥmūd al-Nīshāpūrī.
The surround contains fragments

Ms. single leaf miniature; written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Artist: after Ḥabib-Allāh Mashhadī.
Miniature measures 130 x 75 mm.
The surround contains a line of unidentified Persian poetry.

Ms. written and illuminated before 1585, probably in Persia.
Text: ten hemistichs of a Persian ghazal by Hilālī Chaghatāy (d. 1529).
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Maḥmūd, who signed the piece; this may be an abbreviation for Maḥmu

Ms. written and illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Artist: after Ḥabib-Allāh Mashadī.
The surround contains a line of a Persian mas̤navī.
Miniature measures 127 x 95 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, mid 16th century.
Text: Persian quatrain by Jāmī.
Scribe: Shāh Maḥmūd al-Nīshāpūrī.
Decoration; illuminated borders.
The surround contains cuttings from three manuscripts; the top and bottom larg

Ms. illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
The surrounds are cuttings from a manuscript; three quatrains.
Artist: after Ḥabīb-Allāh Mashhadī.
Miniature measures 165 x 86 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, second half of the 16th century.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Text: eight hemistichs from a ghazal by Saʻdī in "-ā rā" and six hemistichs from a ghazal by Saʻdī in "-ārān".
The surround contains cut

Ms. illuminated ca. 1600, probably in Herāt, Afghanistan.
The surround has Persian prose from Anṣarī's "Munājāt".
Miniature measures 159 x 113 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia and dated sana 1035 (i.e., 1625 or 1626).
Text: inscriptions read "sana 1035" and "ʻamal-i isdā az Harāt".
Artist: probably by Rīża ʻAbbāsī (Āqā Riz̤ā-ʼi ʻAbbāsī) and an assistant.
The surround is

Ms. written and illuminated in Bukhara between 1528 and ca. 1543.
Text: four hemistichs of an unidentified Persian poem.
Contains a seal stamp which begins "Man raḥīm ...".
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Ḥusainī (Mīr ʻAl

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, ca. 1630.
Text: inscriptions; that in the top left corner reads "dar kitābkhāna...sana..." ("in the library (of)...year..."); that in the bottom right corner reads "rāqimuhu Muḥammad Yūsuf al-Ḥusainī" ("the

Ms. illuminated ca. 1600, probably in Herāt, Afghanistan.
Miniature measures 109 x 185 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia in the third quarter of the 16th century.
Text: an unidentified Persian poem.
Decoration: illuminated border.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia and dated 1001 (1592-1593).
Text: Persian quatrain by Sulṭān ʻAlī; dedication on the left side reads: jihat-i navvāb-i mustaṭāb-i khāni-i ʻālīshānī nivishta shud fi 1001 ("written in 1001 for his highnes

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, the third quarter of the sixteenth century.
Text: unidentified Persian ghazal.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Scribe: Aḥmad al-Ḥusainī.
The surround contains cuttings from two manuscripts; the large c

Ms. illuminated in Persia in the second quarter of the 16th century.
Artist: after Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Malik Ḥusain, who flourished 1630-1660.
The surround is cut from a manuscript, probably of Anṣārī's "Munājāt".
Miniature measures 117 x 1

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia, probably second half of the 16th century.
Text: Persian quatrain by Jāmī.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Text box: 186 x 98 mm.
The surround contains cuttings from three manuscripts; the top and bottom

Ms. single leaf, written and illuminated in Persia probably in the second half of the sixteenth century.
Decoration: illuminated border.
Text: two lines of a Persian mas̤navī by Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī and one line in Chaghatay Turkish.
Text bo

Ms. written and illuminated in Persia; dated 988 (i.e., 1580-1581).
Text: two lines of an unidentified Persian ghazal in "-ān hama".
Text box: 210 x 95 mm.

Ms. written and illuminated in Persian in the third quarter of the 16th century.
Text: unidentified Persian poetry in "-ar dārad".
Decoration: illuminated border.
Text box: 173 x 87 mm.