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Collection Objects
Asian Art
Pages from a Qur’an in Kufic Script
Date: 
9th–10th century
Medium: 
Ink and color on deerskin
Accession Number: 
1952.52.10
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Abbasid dynasty (750–1258)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Yang Guifei and another lady playinbg a game while Emperor Xuanzong watching
Artist: Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese, 1625–1694
Date: 
17th century
Medium: 
Monochrome woodblock printed book with hand coloring
Accession Number: 
1950.566
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
The Prophet Muhammad Ascends to the Heavens
Date: 
17th century
Medium: 
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.2
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Mahavira’s Parents Show Him the Sun and Moon, and They Celebrate His Birth, folio 19; and Mahavira Is Sent to School, and Mahavira is Married, folio 22 from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra
Date: 
ca. 18th century
Medium: 
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.20.1-.2
Culture: 
Indian, Gujarati
Period: 
Mughal dynasty (1526–1857)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Page from the Persian Dictionary Farhang-i-Jahangiri
Date: 
18th century
Medium: 
Ink, color, and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.58
Culture: 
Indian, Islamic
Period: 
Mughal dynasty (1526–1857)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
A manuscript leaf with text in naskhi script
Date: 
17th century
Medium: 
Color and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.3
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Poem in Shikasta script
Date: 
1779
Medium: 
Ink, color, and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.5
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Zand dynasty (1751–94)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Manuscript leaf written in nasta’liq script
Date: 
ca. 1700
Medium: 
Color and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.4
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Sthulabhadra Takes the Form of a Lion, folio 69; and Mahavira Gives His Possessions to a Brahmin and Renounces His Worldly Life, folio 40 from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra
Date: 
ca. 1470
Medium: 
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.14.1-.2
Culture: 
Indian
Period: 
Gujarat sultanate (1407–1573)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Collection Objects
Asian Art
Leaf from a poetic manuscript
Date: 
16th century
Medium: 
Color and gold on paper
Accession Number: 
2001.138.1
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period: 
Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Manuscripts
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room

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