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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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

Gouache on paper. Gouache heightened with tooled gold and silver on paper. 27 by 21 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the ruler sitting against a bolster and with a hookah pipe in his hand and attendants stand behind. He watc...

Pencil, ink and gouache on paper, lines of ?Devanagari above, narrow yellow border, black rules, buff margins, the reverse of some of the folios w...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, with sumptuously dressed prince with green halo accompanied by attendants and courtiers, facing a white rob...

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting two seated imams ‘Jilani and Chichti’ in Al-Haram Al-Nabawi in the medina, ruled in gold ...

A silk panel embroidered with gilt and silver metal threads in relief with a central medallion featuring Allah in a large thuluth script encircled...

Two Indian mouthpieces with tubular body, with finials depicting animal heads. A Qajar mouthpiece with Persian inscriptions in nastaliq script. ...

Persian manuscript on paper, each page with a central panel enclosing 15 lines in nastaliq black script, surrounded by diagonally written scripts,...

Arabic manuscript on paper in scroll form, written in black ghubar reserved in clouds on a gilt ground decorated with polychrome floral leafy spra...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 19 leaves with 11 lines to each page, written in thuluth, naskh and muhaqqaq script. The bismallah of each surah writt...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 298 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and bla...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and black rules, gold rounde...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 leaves with 13 lines to each page. First, seventh and last line written in strong large thuluth blue and light gree...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 320ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a double red borde...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 310ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a polychrome and g...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a red and gilt border. Surah headings in whi...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a gilt and black border. Surah headings in r...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 26 leaves. With 2 fly-leaves, alternating pages with 6 lines or 17 lines. The first and last line in strong large thul...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 24 leaves with 8 lines to each page. First and last line written in strong large thuluth script on light copper red do...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 217 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, 19 lines to the page written in minute naskhi script in black ink with...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, surah headings in red ink, three...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in black Maghribi script, catchwords in gilt ink outlined in black, gold verse rosette markers outli...

Two folding rectangular panels, decorated in mother-of- pearl and tortoiseshell fragments with a dense design of flowers and lattices. 110 cm. h...

A Persian pottery vase with inverted pear shaped body and truncated conical neck, the shoulder with four further necks, painted in bold reddish-br...

Consisting of seven linked rectangular silver pieces, enameled with different seated Sufi figures from the Persian history. Shams Al-Tibrizi, ...

The tile of rectangular form with cusped ends and small arch at the centre of each horizontal edge, comprising elements in cobalt-blue, turquoise,...

A Persian pottery bowl with conical sides resting on a spreading foot, decorated with two figures on horseback on a leafy scrolls decorated ground...

A Persian pottery bowl standing on a short straight foot with slightly flaring sides, decorated in a brownish-gold lustre, with a central roundel ...