Materials: Wood, carved and painted]]>
Materials: Opaque watercolour, gold, ink, paper]]>
Materials: Ink on paper, printed]]>
Materials: Ink on paper]]>
Materials: Opaque watercolour, ink on paper]]> on its stems. Bindings came to include braided patterns, animals, human figures, mandorlas, and rosettes -- decorative elements derived from the encounter with new cultures as the Islamic world expanded both East and West. Inscriptions on the doublures of this manuscript provide the date of its completion and the name of the painter: Mahmud Shirazi.]]>
Manuscript: ink on paper

Binding: leather, pasteboard, lacquer, paint]]>
Manuscript: paper, ink, opaque watercolour and gold

Binding: leather, pasteboard, lacquer, paint]]>
Materials: On parchment]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, tooled and stamped]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, gold, marbled paper]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, gold, silver]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, gold]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, gold, green and blue paint]]>
Materials: Leather, pasteboard, grey paint]]>
Materials: Wood, lacquer, papier-mâché, paint]]>
Materials: Wood and bone inlay]]>
Materials: Slab-built porcelain with cobalt-blue paint and glaze]]>
Materials: Bronze, silver-inlaid]]>