Arabic manuscript on vellum, each page with 9 lines written in maghribi script in sepia ink, double brown roundel verse markers, red diacritic mar...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each side with 6ll. of elegant kufic script, gold verse roundels markers outlined in brown.The horizontally elongated...

Arabic manuscript on paper, interlinear Persian translation, 14 lines to each page, written in black Kufic script, diacritics in red, rosette vers...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each folio with six lines of elegant sepia Maghribi script. Gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointed ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each page with 19ll. written in black naskh script within clouds against a gold ground, surah headings in red thuluth ...

Arabic and Turkish manuscript on paper, 22 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, elegant black naskh, titles in red naskh ink, within text gilt panel, margin...

An Ottoman Quran section in gold, Juz 20, beginning with Surah Al-Naml, The Ants, verse 56. Arabic manuscript on paper, 27 ff. with 2 fly-leav...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 270 leaves each folio written with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, surah heading...

Al-Jazuli's renowned work in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 10 lines written in bold sepia Maghribi, ...

An Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 25 ll in black, red and blue ink, written in thuluth and nasck script. The upper section with Quran 109 ...

Twenty nine sections of the Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper. Each with 12 leaves and 15 lines, written in black script, verses separated red ver...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each folio with 9 lines, written in black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointed...

An Arabic manuscript on paper. Marriage contract between alsyd Alsharif Muhammad ibn al-Sharif Sidi al-Hasan ibn Sidi Muhammad ibn Sidi al-Hassa...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords in red and green ink, polychrome verse rosette markers outlined...

Arabic manuscript on paper backed on silk, written in naskh, thuluth, muhaqqaq and angular Kufic scripts in various colors. 17 by 470 cm. The s...

Arabic manuscript on paper in scroll form, written in black Ghubar script of the whole Quran, the headpiece with gold and royal blue decoration en...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each folio with 15 lines, written in black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointe...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each folio with 17 lines, written in black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointe...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, marginal occasional notes indica...

SIGNED ABU'L HASSAN GHAFFARI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1267/1850-51 AD Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Ardeshir Mirza stands wearing tall black...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 138 leaves. with 2 fly-leaves, 13 lines to each page in bold black naskh script reserved in clouds a...

Opaque colour on paper, depicting a woman during a childbirth, under two lines of Ottoman inscriptions in black ink, all ruled in gold and polychr...

Opaque colour on paper depicting Ottoman Turk dentist and patients. Note the use of a bow-drill in the lower figures. 27 by 17 cm.

Water colour on paper, depicting Islamic doctors during a surgery. 29 by 18 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany

Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honour of the Prophet Muhammad, each folio with 11 lines written in elegant black naskh script, wi...

The flat cartouche with cusped ends, the body with extremely elegant and bold calligraphy against a background of finely worked cut steel spiralin...

A painted steel dispatch box with interior fitted for writing. The case has a lock, the black interior with gilded borders, a central panel enclo...

Of accentuated inverted drop-shape with pointed lower terminal, with a brass core surrounded by an elaborately chased silver mount, windows of sil...

Of typical folding form with two openwork interlocking parts, the upper sections of cusped arch form, the lower sections of cross form with undula...

A pair of cone shaped brass censors, supported on a trumpet base with a narrow delicate stem resting on a square base, engraved with a very fine d...

The lacquered wooden box decorated in polychrome with Qajar figures, opening to reveal a set of weights and two different sized scales in fitted s...

Each of rectangular form, with a detailed depiction of Khusraw discovering Shirin bathing, surrounded by a band containing cartouches enclosing in...

Length: 45 cm. Weight: 960 gr. Provenance: from a private German collection,

Cast bronze with engraved and punched decoration with niello, knop-head lid with central vertical aperture, carved with foliate Kufic band on lid ...

With a cursive floral pattern. 69 by 53.5 cm.

A copper piece containing five chapters of the Quran: - Surah Al-A’raf vv(206) - Surah Al-Furqan vv(77) - Surah Fatir vv(83) - Surah Yassin ...

With rounded base and sloping shoulder rising to a triangular-section rim, the body decorated with a band of poetry in thuluth reserved against ar...

106 by 50 cm.

Embroidered in silk on linen with tulips and carnations.122 by 48 cm.

Of faceted waisted octagonal form extruded to points at the corners of the flat shoulder with slightly sunken centre, the tubular neck with rounde...

Of shallow rounded from with eight radiating lobes, a ring handle at one side with mythical beast thumbpiece, the sides engraved with four roundel...

A silver plated casket, engraved around the sides with floral scrolls. The cover set with a Timurid dark green jade with a petal border and flat e...

Persian manuscript on paper, 193 ff. with 14 lines to the page arranged in two columns separated by gilt floral scrolls, written in nasta’liq scri...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 57 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 5 lines to the page written in black naskh script with Sinai characteristics in black ink...

Of shallow form with a raised, gilt omphalos in the centre, centrally attached by a pin and a small bird sculpture to one side, the repoussé and c...

A timurid style jug, with a bulbous body and cylindrical neck, the dragon handle has been cast separately, all decorated with medallions containin...

Plain silver hilt with scalloped shoulder, the slightly curved blade and central edge, with gold damascening decoration at forte of v.1 from surah...

The bazuband engraved and gold-damascened with three octograms enclosing figure heads, flanked on both sides with floral sprays filled with a dens...

Height: 6 cm. Width: 8 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Japan

Arabic manuscript on paper, 22 lines to each page, written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords and titles is red ink, occasional marginal notes. ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 19ll. with lines to each page, first and last line written in large thuluth script, 7 ll arranged in a column and wri...

Arabic manuscript on paper of 19 leaves with 18 lines to each page, in naskh script with black and red ink. 1. A short thesis on Medicine, Arabic...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 20 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, each page with 9 lines. The first, central and the last line in very elegant black ...

This compendium of astronomy, entitled al-Mulakhkhas fi al-Hay’ah, was composed by Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini al-Khwarizmi. Arabic ...

Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth and last nanak or Sikh preacher. He is credited with having formalised the religion. Contemporaneous to the Empero...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper. 70 by 49 cm.

Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. 81 by 56 cm.Catalogue Note. Compare with another illustration of the same subject in Phil...

The tenth Sikh Guru Govind Singh (1675-1708) seated on a throne against a bolster on a terrace, an attendant behind him waving a morchal, discipl...

He was born in 1691 at Phul, in present-day Bathinda district of the Punjab, in a Jat Sikh family to Chaudhary Ram Singh of Phulkian Misl. His fat...

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper. This illustration is from the book of the Bhagavata Purana, which describes episodes from the life ...