LNS 37 MS
Folio from a manuscript of Pedanius Dioscorides’ De materia medica (The Pharmacological Book of Herbs), showing a plant from the Pulegium species (fudanj) and listing its medicinal properties
LNS 57 MS
Folio from an album depicting a sumptuously dressed painter at work on a miniature in the contemporary style of Iran or the Deccan; probably by the Mughal painter Manohar (‘signed and dated’ at bottom left ‘Work of Bihzad 894’ [= 1488-89], indicating that it is a ‘copy’ of an original by the famous late Timurid painter Bihzad)
LNS 77 MS
Miniature painting on silk depicting a princely couple in the company of attendants, variously bejeweled and opulently dressed in gold-decorated and fur-lined very long-sleeved cloaks
LNS 345 MS
Folio from an album with the portrayal of a lavishly-dressed youth drinking wine, with floral and foliate border in gold; the reverse an illuminated calligraphic page which includes love poems (ghazals) by Hafiz and couplets from the Bustan of Sa‘di, as well as additional unidentified verses
LNS 112 MS
Folio from an album portraying the Mughal emperor ‘Alamgir (Awrangzeb, son of Shah Jahan) holding a hexagonal emerald and wearing a rectangular one, as well as fine pearls; the reverse with a calligraphic composition rendering Persian verses, signed by the calligrapher ‘Abd Allah al-Husayny
LNS 17 MS f 123v
Folio from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Isma‘il ibn ar-Razzaz al-Jazari, illustrating the water-powered mechanism for a ‘perpetual flute’, the text in elegant naskhi script; signed by the calligrapher Farrukh ibn ‘Abd al-Latif
LNS 63 MS a
Folio from a sumptuous and famous manuscript of the Qur’an, all the text of which is executed in ‘eastern Kufic’ against an elaborately decorated ground of palmettes framed by scrolling stems (chapter 4, verses 173-75)
LNS 297 MS
Illustrated folio depicting the capture of Marzuq’s and the Frank’s (Europeans) fortress by the Amir Hamza, from a manuscript of an epic narrating the exploits of Amir Hamza (understood as the uncle of the prophet Muhammad), known as the Dastan-e Amir Hamza or Hamza-nameh (Tales of Amir Hamza). The colossal manuscript was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar in a series of approximately fourteen volumes
LNS 286 MS
Illustrated leaf from a manuscript of the Universal History (Jami‘ at-Tawarikh), written by the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid ad-Din and augmented at the Mughal court under the Emperor Akbar; layout and painting by the artist Tulsi, depicting the bier of the Ilkhanid Mongol ruler Hülegü Khan
