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"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
Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves
Date: ca. 1550–70Accession Number: 2000.424
"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (1253–1325)
Date: 1597–98Accession Number: 13.228.26
"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz
Painting attributed to Bihzad (ca. 1450–1535/36)
Date: ca. 1480Accession Number: 17.81.4
Folio from the "Blue Qur'an"
Date: second half 9th–mid-10th centuryAccession Number: 2004.88
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", Folio from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224Accession Number: 57.51.21
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Date: dated A.H. 531/ A.D. 1137Accession Number: 1996.238.2
"The Eavesdropper", Folio from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami
Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76)
Date: ca. 1430Accession Number: 13.228.13.6
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.3
"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Painting by Mustafa ibn Vali
Date: ca. 1595Accession Number: 1994.141
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Painting by Chitarman (active ca. 1627–70)
Date: recto: 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50Accession Number: 55.121.10.24
Date: ca. 1180Accession Number: 29.160.24
"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Date: ca. 1530Accession Number: 1970.301.51
The House of Bijapur
Painting by Kamal Muhammad (active 1680s)
Date: ca. 1680Accession Number: 1982.213
Date: late 9th–early 10th centuryAccession Number: 30.45
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