Subject: string instrument
Dancing the Bon Odori
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1901.171A Winter Party
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1900.113Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d.1390); recto: Prince and Princess listen to musicians; verso: text
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.471Detached folio from a dispersed copy of a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: Prince and Princess listen to musicians; verso: text, two columns, fourteen lines; one of a group of two folios. Border: The text is set in red and blue rulings on cream-colored paper.
Album folio; recto: Lady with two attendants; verso: calligraphy
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.429Detached album folio; left-hand half of a double-page composition; text: Persian and Arabic in black nasta’liq script; recto: Lady with two attendants; verso: panel of calligraphy, one column, six lines; signed by Muhammad Ibrahim. Border: The recto is set in a frame of gold foliate and arabesque motifs mounted on a blue-colored paperboard with gold …
Sultan Murad and Sultan Daniyal on a Picnic
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.427Detached album folio; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: Sultan Murad and Sultan Danyal on a Picnic; verso: calligraphic panel containing verses from the Gulistan by Sa’di. Border: The recto is set in gold and black rulings surrounded by an inner frame of gold floral scroll, a blue tendril scroll and a gold- red …
Babur receives a courtier
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.230Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Baburnama (Tuzuk-i Baburi) by Zahir-al-Din Muhammad Babur; Babur receives a courtier; one of a group of three folios. Border: The painting is set in gold, red, and blue rulings in a border with gold landscape, bird and animal motifs, mounted within borders of a Rawdat al-safa page.
Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); verso: Giv finds Kay Khusraw; recto: text: Giv finds Kay Khusraw in Turan’s meadow
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.209Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: text, Giv finds Kay Khusraw in Turan’s meadow, four columns, nineteen lines; verso: illustration and text, Giv Finds Kay Khusraw in Turan’s meadow; one of a group of three folios. Border: The text and …
Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); verso: Daughters of Barzin Dance for Bahram Gur; recto: text: Bahram Gur and Barzin Shah
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.208Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: text, Bahram Gur and Barzin Shah, four columns, nineteen lines; verso: illustration and text, Daughters of Barzin dance for Bahram Gur; one of a group of three folios. Border: The text and the painting …
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (died 1209); verso: text and illustration: Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion; recto: text
https://asia.si.edu/object/S1986.182Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; text: Persian in black nasta’liq script; recto: text: nineteen lines; verso: illustration and text: Bahram Gur and the princess in the black pavilion; one of a group of two folios.