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Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
circa 1430
French
ink, tempera and gold on thin parchment
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Qur’an manuscript leaf in small naskh script, chapter 20, verse 87
18th century (?)
Turkish
ink and gold with touches of red on paper
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Qur’an manuscript leaf in thuluth and naskh script, chapters 83–85 (recto and verso)
12th century - 13th century
Egyptian; Syrian
black ink, red, gold, and touches of blue on egg-glazed paper
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Qur’an manuscript leaf in thuluth and naskh script, chapter 4, verses 480–90
12th century - 13th century
Egyptian; Syrian
ink and color on egg-glazed paper
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Manuscript page from a Qur’an, from Sura 68
early 18th century
ink with red, ochre, and green on paper
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Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page
late 13th century
Syrian
ink and color on glazed paper
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Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
early 17th century
Iranian
ink, color, and gold on paper
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Persian poetry and proverbs anthology, manuscript leaf
late 18th century
Afghan; Pakistani; Indian
ink and color, with touches of gold leaf on thin, glazed paper
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Mohammedan Law, manuscript page
late 18th century
Turkish
ink and color, burnished gold on egg-white glazed paper
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Qur’an manuscript leaf in small naskh script, chapter 22, verse 40
18th century (?)
Turkish
ink, gold, and touches of red on fine paper
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Manuscript Page from the Gulistan and Bustan of Sa’di of Shiraz
circa late 18th century
Afghan; Pakistani; Indian
ink on glazed paper
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Mohammedan Law, manuscript page
1794
Turkish
ink on egg-glazed paper
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Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
17th century
Iranian
ink, color and gold on paper
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Qur’an manuscript leaf, illuminated section heading in thuluth script
12th century
Iraqi; Iranian
ink, color and gold on paper
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Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
15th century
Indian
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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