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Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The king of the Ocean, having assumed human form, arrives at the court of the Raja, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Lovers Embracing
The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
A princess reclining on a terrace with attendants
Queen Victoria Giving the Bible to an African Chief (The Secret of England’s Greatness)
Album of Calligraphy and Paintings
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Jagannath, Subhadra and Balarama in an Arch (verso)
Hare, Spoonbill, and Fish
Adoration of the Magi
Head of a Beauty
Four-armed Maitreya
Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra
Gaudi Ragini, page from a Ragamala series
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Sir Soulden Lawrence
From the Farhang-i Jahangiri (Persian-language Dictionary) compiled by Mir Jamal al-Din Husayn Inju of Shiraz (Persian, d. 1626)
Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso)
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Head of a Woman
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara)
Peasant Children Dancing
Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
Akrura Rides toward Dwarka, page from the large Basohli Bhagavata Purana
Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Salim and Salima return to Ayaz and Mahmuda in the sanctuary, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 1
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: Monk Holding a Flower (recto); Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: text describing descent of Mahavira into the womb of the Brahman woman Devananda (verso)
Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham of Balkh Visited by Angels
Holy Family
The soldier receives a garland of roses from his wife which will remain fresh as long as she is faithful, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night
The Brahman’s predicament is conveyed by the wind to the fish who carries the news to the king of the Ocean, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Seal Rocks, Farallons
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Kasuga Shrine Mandala
Poet Fisherman
The merchant of Tirmiz takes the wise parrot and myna to ‘Ubaid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night
Bathsheba at her bath
Morning Sun over Heavenly Citadel Peak
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Princess and attendant in trompe l’oeil window
Summer and Winter Landscapes
Harvest Time