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Folio from a Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) by al-Qazvini
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Folio from Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) by al-Qazvini; recto: Horse (Faras); verso: text
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Folio from Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) by al-Qazvini; recto: Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere: Corvus (al-Ghurab), Centaurus (Qanturis); verso: Lupus (al-Saba'), Ara (al-Mijmara), Corona Austrina
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); recto: Human a warrior of Turan approaches the Iranian camp; verso: text, Human challenges the Iranian chieftains
early 15th century

Iran
Folio from Aja'ib al-Makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) by al-Qazvini; recto: Signs of the Zodiac: Leo (al-Asad), Virgo (al-Sunbula); verso: Libra (al-Mizan), Scorpio (al-'Aqrab)
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Folio from an unidentified manuscript
14th century

Egypt
Folio from a Qur'an, sura 33:26-30
14th century

Possibly Iran
Divan (Collected poems) by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (d.1410)
circa 1400

Tabriz or Baghdad, Iran or Iraq
Rhinoceros (Karkadann); folio from a Aja'ib al-makhluqat ("Wonders of Creation")
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Sheep (Da'n), from Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) by al-Qazvini
early 15th century

Iraq or Eastern Turkey
Folio from Fath al-Bari fi sharh al-Bukhari (Victory of the creator, a commentary on al-Bukhari) by Ibn Hadjar al-Askalani (d.1449); Illuminated title page
15th century

Egypt
Folio from a Gulistan (Rosegarden) by Sa'di; recto: text; verso: text
Text dated 1468, illumination added early 16th c., paintings repainted ca. 1645

India and Iran

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