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Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d. 1390); recto: Sufi dance; verso: text
1523-24 (930 A.H.)

Herat, Afghanistan
Folio from a Gulistan (Rosegarden) by Sa'di; recto: Sa'di in the rose garden; verso: text
Dated 1468-69 (873 A.H.), margins added early 16th century, illustrations: Mughal period, ca. 1645

Historic Iran, present-day Afghanistan
Folio from a Gulistan (Rosegarden) by Sa'di; verso: Galen watching a dispute; recto: text
Text dated 1468, illumination added early 16th century, paintings repainted ca. 1645

Present-day Afghanistan, and India
Folio from a Gulistan (Rosegarden) by Sa'di; recto: text with illuminated border; verso: text with illuminated border
Text dated 1468, illumination added early 16th c., paintings repainted ca. 1645

Present-day Afghanistan, India, and Iran
Folio from a Majma' al-tawarikh (Compendium of history) by Hafiz-i Abru (d.1430); verso: Jamshid enthroned; recto: text
circa 1425

Herat, Afghanistan
Animal Figurine
late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium BCE

Iran
Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha by Jami (d. 1492); recto: Egyptian women overwhelmed by Yusuf's beauty; verso: text, Egyptian women cut their hands at the sight of Yusuf's beauty
circa 1525

Herat, Afghanistan
Animal Figurine
late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium BCE

Iran
Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d. 1390); recto: text; verso: Chained lion
1523-24 (930 A.H.)
Maitreya Bodhisattva
2nd-3rd century

Pakistan or Afghanistan
Ladle
12th-13th century

Iran or Afghanistan
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi; verso: Amir Khusraw presents a book of poetry to Ala'uddin Khalji; recto: text
1503-1504

Balkh, Afghanistan

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