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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Bustan of Sa'di
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Bustan of Sa'di

Artist Mir Ali al-Kateb (Iranian, 1465 - 1544)
CulturePersian
Date1566
MediumLinen, Ink , Gold
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (21 x 14.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Louis I. Jaffe
Object number50.45.12A
On View
Not on view
DescriptionSheet from an illuminated manuscript of the "Bustan of Sa'di". Paper of fine quality made of linen rags polished with a glass ball or shell. Ink and gold on linen paper.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Mir Ali al-Kateb
Bustan of Sa'di
1566
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Koran Page
17th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Ali Riza Abbassi
Miniature
17th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Ali Riza Abbassi
Miniature
17th century
Miniature in manuscript by calligrapher Mir Imad
Unknown
Miniature in manuscript by calligrapher Mir Imad
ca. 1600
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
The Coast of Barbary
Before 1765
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Koran
19th century
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Mrs. Littleton Waller Tazewell
Quilt
1810-30
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Illuminated Page From An Anitphonary
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Manuscript page
15th century
Image Not Available for Miniature
Unknown
Miniature
ca. 1625
Image scanned and/or photographed.
Christian Rohlfs
The King and the Jester
1919
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