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Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi
`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–86)
Date: late 15th centuryAccession Number: 13.160.10
"Khusrau Hunting", Folio from Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi
Date: dated A.H. 904/A.D. 1498–99Accession Number: 69.27
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi (active 1340s)
Date: A.H. 741/A.D. 1340–41Accession Number: 19.68.1
Summer Mountains
Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056)
Date: mid-1th centuryAccession Number: 1973.120.1
Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
Date: ca. 1555–60Accession Number: 38.149.1
Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi (Chinese, ca. 1000–ca. 1090)
Date: ca. 1080Accession Number: 1981.276
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Date: dated A.H. 531/ A.D. 1137Accession Number: 1996.238.2
Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu
Unidentified Artist
Date: mid-12th centuryAccession Number: 41.138
"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami
Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141–1217)
Date: A.H. 931/A.D. 1524–25Accession Number: 13.228.7.5
"The Feast of Sada", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.2
Gibbons in a Landscape
Attributed to Sesson Shūkei (ca. 1504–ca. 1589)
Date: ca. 1570Accession Number: 1992.8.1, .2
Date: late 9th–early 10th centuryAccession Number: 30.45
Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (d. 1320–21)
Date: dated A.H. 707/ A.D. 1307–8Accession Number: 55.44
Date: ca. 1180Accession Number: 29.160.24
Date: ca. 1555–60Accession Number: 38.149.2
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